John Kerry

The President is Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, while Congress has the power to declare war.

I appreciate this opportunity to offer my strong support for President Obama's nomination of Peter Kovar to be Assistant Secretary for Congressional and Intergovernmental Relations at the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

I am proud to have served on Senator Kerry's staff when he was first elected.

We face a serious housing crisis, and we need to be prepared to work closely across party lines and with HUD in the effort to minimize the impact of foreclosures on our communities.

It isn't often that a Senator gets to appear before a committee to recommend confirmation for not one but two former members of their staff.

If your goal is larger than that, in terms of nation-building and otherwise, that's a much more expensive and longer term proposition.

But, Colonel Bacevich has raised some very fundamental, larger questions that are almost bigger, in a sense, than your individual ability to want that relationship you built with somebody.

Senator Kerry--to this very committee in 1971, you spoke of 'men who have returned with a sense of anger and a sense of betrayal which no one has yet grasped.'

I strongly believe in the mission in Afghanistan, combined with our efforts in Pakistan, was and is the true front on the war on terror.

We are probably angriest about all that we were told about Vietnam and about the mystical war against communism.

Support the troops but that support is a mile wide and an inch deep.

We are probably angriest about all that we were told about Vietnam and about the mystical war against communism.

How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?

The predominant mood of the country is not one of anger or anxiety, but of dull acceptance.

We want to understand the challenges from the perspective of the men and women who have been fighting there.

We're not confusing a war with the warriors.

Thank you so much for your thoughtful testimony.

I welcome the very full engagement with this committee.

The danger is very, very real... the opportunity is enormous.

Educate the American public, because if the American public feels this issue... that's what got the Montreal Protocol done.

EPA has taken a bold first step by proposing that carbon pollution is a danger to our health and welfare.

We cannot meet ambitious reduction goals without concerted efforts to conserve the world's tropical forests.

We must work to promote research, development, and the wide-scale deployment of clean energy technologies.

How do we find the next Google?

I completely agree with you, I think that's quite important.