John Kerry

As a country, we both want our Government to protect us and we frankly want to be protected from our Government.

My worry about the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission is that it will make that problem worse.

I personally think we have overstated the case that that was an intelligence failure.

George Bush's plan for social security reform is very bad, a rip-off in fact. Mine, however, is very good.

Yesterday I was at Orlando, right next to Fantasyland. And the difference between George Bush and me is, I drove by it, he lives in it.

If George Bush were to be reelected, given the way he has gone about this war, and given his avoidance of responsibility in North Korea and Iran and other places, it is possible.

Let's switch the topic.

You don't just stand up in front of folks, in the midst of a -- sort of running through all the issues speech, and pretend that that's the way you lead people to the table.

The president of the United States stood before a stony-faced body and barely talked about the realities at all of Iraq.

Both sides are preparing for what may be the final showdown.

Invading Iraq has created a crisis of historic proportions. And if we do not change course, there is the prospect of a war with no end in sight.

This policy has been plagued by an lack of planning, by an absence of candor, arrogance, and outright incompetence.

... that this administration is planning yet another substantial callup of reservists and Guard units immediately after the election. Hide it from people through the election, then make the move.

As commander in chief, I've got two words for companies like Halliburton that abuse the American taxpayer and the trust -- you're fired.

We need a president and a vice president who aren't going to sacrifice the taxpayers' money on the alter of no-bid cronyism while our fighting men and women go without the armor and the equipment that they need.

I believe you deserve a president who isn't going to gild that truth or gild our national security with politics, who is not going to ignore his own intelligence.

It is not just that the administration is making the wrong choice by feeding the insurance companies and the drug companies and depriving you of more available, lower-cost drugs. It is that they're being dishonest with you about it.

And the reason they're hiding the truth from the American people is because the out-of-pocket expenses of Medicare have now gone up to 37.2 percent by 2006.

George Bush chose to make the job of terrorists easier.

He failed the test of leadership by saying that he supports an assault weapons ban, but then doing everything in his power to keep the Republicans from sending it to him.

It is a test of character. In a secret deal, he chose his powerful friends in the gun lobby over police officers and families that he promised to protect.

So tomorrow, for the first time in 10 years, when a killer walks into a gun shop, when a terrorist goes to a gun show somewhere in America, when they want to purchase an AK-47 or some other military assault weapon, they're going to hear…

Eight million Americans are looking for work here in America. Two million more -- two million more -- than when George W. Bush took office.

President Bush's domestic policies are taking us back to two Americas, separate and unequal.

I mean, heavens to Betsy, folks, we've had the law on the books for the last 10 years. And there's not a gun owner in America who can stand up and say, They tried to take my guns away.