John Kerry

I don't fault George Bush for doing too much in the war on terror. I believe he's done too little.

They want him to go out there tonight and draw contrast with President Bush, and try and make the case that he believes he has the most experience to defeat President Bush in November.

And no matter what was said in Washington just this morning, the wrong way to cut the deficit is to cut Social Security benefits.

And companies will no longer be able to simply surprise their workers with a pink slip instead of a paycheck.

The wrong way to cut the deficit is to cut Social Security benefits.

If the amendment provides for partnership and civil union, which I believe is the appropriate way to extend rights that would be a good amendment.

I don't think you need a constitutional amendment. The states for 200 years have had the right to make this decision. And there is nothing to suggest that they're not up to the ability to make the decision.

While I believe marriage is between a man and a woman, for 200 years, this has been a state issue. I oppose this election year effort to amend the Constitution, and I will vote against such an amendment if it comes to the Senate floor.

I think George Bush is on the run. And I think he's on the run because he doesn't have a record to run on.

He has done an extraordinary job of invigorating a whole group of people who were divorced from the political process.

When you were asked by the 'Concord Monitor' about Osama bin Laden, you said we couldn't prejudge his guilt for September 11. What in the world were you thinking.

Well, ladies and gentlemen, it just doesn't take a lot of fuzzy math to count to zero.

They promised in the first tax they'd create 500,000 jobs. They lost a million or more. In the next tax cut, they promised another 800,000 jobs. They lost another two million.

I've always said these races are close.

We have the same policy on trade.

I'm proud that I've said no to the Political Action Committee Money. And if you look at George Bush and his crowd, they are the world champions in terms of special interest giveaways, the drug company, the oil companies, Halliburton, the…

I have been one of the leading champions in the United States Congress for campaign finance reform and for changing the way money affects American politics.

We need a nominee of our party who has the ability to stand up to him and go to toe to toe and point out to Americans that we actually can fight a more effective war on terror, that I can make America safer than George Bush is making us…

I came in, I'm sure, challenged as many of you here in this room were by the call to action of President Kennedy and the notion that politics can be a noble profession.

I'm the only United States senator who has been elected four times who voluntarily has refused to ever take in any of my one races one dime of Political Action Committee Special Interest Money.

I am the only candidate in this race who has a measurable, consistent, 35-year record of standing up against powerful interests in America.

What the White House is doing is actually almost laughable. I mean, I really do find it amusing.

I'm very pleased that we have a strong effort of uniting the party that is coming together. That's what you need to do to win.

If you consider saying something nasty to be pointing out to Americans that the Bush administration took a Medicare bill for seniors and turned it into a $139 billion giveaway to the drug industry that forbids Medicare from even…

They are the world champions in terms of special interest giveaways -- the drug companies, the oil companies, Halliburton, the Enron scandal, the WorldCom scandal.