John Kerry

My understanding is, $2.3 billion is for a new mandatory program that will not even be spent until the year 2005. That leaves an immediate increase of $2.2 billion. But the Republican budget resolution also assumes the $700 million…

It is my understanding, reading the Republican budget, that $2.3 billion of the money that the Senator claims is for an increase----

I love our flag, our Constitution and our country with a love that has no bounds. I defended all three for 35 years as a soldier and was willing to give my life in their defense. I understand how strongly so many of my fellow veterans and…

The Joint Tax Committee tells us that they arrive at an assessment where under the legislation of the Senator from Georgia, 52 percent of the tax benefit will go to taxpayers with children in private schools.

I believe my friend will acknowledge, as he has already--I think he said that a majority of this benefit will go to families in private schools.

My friend knows full well that the famous teacher Stanley Surrey, I think at Harvard Law, coined the phrase ``tax expenditure.'' We make choices in the Senate that if you forego a tax you expect to collect, it is an expenditure. Now, that…

I said in my comments that the amount of money is really not the key. I said I throw away the $7 as not particularly moving. But the $7 comes from the Joint Tax Committee estimate.

I believe that the U.S. must play a strong role in coordinating the efforts of all APEC nations.

I believe it is crucial to suspend all of the remaining U.S. military contacts with the Indonesian armed forces.

I do not believe that martial law... is the step that the Indonesian government should have taken.

The Indonesian government holds the primary responsibility for restoring peace and stability to East Timor.

I ask my colleague if, in fact, by denying that exchange, those people the right to travel and connect with relatives and others within the country, if we don't provide Fidel Castro with the selectivity and greater capacity to restrict…

The language in section 2 says ``such losses result directly from damage to tangible personal or real other property.'' The economic losses my colleague is skillfully referring to may be the much larger losses that come from, say, the…

If there is an illegal provision in a legal contract, you have the same problem I just defined. I do not want to get arcane, either. But you have, in the language of this bill, superseded the capacity of that illegality to be either a…

Let my say to my colleague, with all due respect, that he is dead wrong. He is even more so dead wrong, because moments ago they adopted an amendment by the Senator from Colorado, the Allard amendment, which makes it very clear that State…

I want to make this clear, Mr. President. Under the McCain bill, if a party is induced by fraud to enter into a contract, they can't recover damages for that. So what if in a conversation they say to the salesperson of the company: Is your…

The comments of the Senator from Oregon now have highlighted the sort of difference between what they say they do and the reality of what is done here. I am not going to ask the reporter to read back the comments, but let me just quote the…

First of all, there is no vagueness whatsoever in any company's capacity to determine on its own, through its technological knowledge, whether or not it has a potential of liability, and that is because of the nature of the problem. We are…

I hate to say this. I say it again with affection and respect. But the Senator didn't actually completely answer the question, because he didn't tell me of any company in the country that wouldn't do what I have said or that hasn't done…

I want to say that I had a discussion with Senator McCain, Senator Dodd, Senator Hollings, and others. A bona fide effort is being made right now to work with the technology community as well as with the legal community. I think there is…

I concur with his judgment about Mr. Primakov. I have had the pleasure of having a discourse or two with him. He is a very thoughtful and articulate person who understands the nature of this. But that is not to say that other politicians…

I ask the majority leader this: He mentioned that he hoped during the deliberations that there would be more than just speeches, that there would be a process of colloquy. I was wondering if he was contemplating how that would work because…

Clearly, the purpose of the trial and the purpose of this effort is to have a fair presentation of evidence. The Senate now having denied notice to White House counsel of what areas may be the subject of video, it might be that the voice…

I thank my colleague. We both benefited enormously from the generous friendship of Kirk O'Donnell and from the remarkable quality of wisdom he had well beyond his years, great common sense, great roots in the streets, the city that he…

I assume that the leader would agree with me that all the great words that are spoken on the floor of the Senate, all of the meaning of this institution, all of the history that is wrapped up in this most watched and intriguing and…