John F. Kerry
Israel gets more than half of all the military purchasing assistance that America gives to all the nations in the world.Collection: Military
We've been waiting since 1918 for the Boston Red Sox to win the World Series, and ... if I had a choice between the White House and the World Series this year, I'm going to take the White House. How's that?Collection: Winning
These guys [Republicans] are the most crooked, you know, lying group I've ever seen.Collection: Lying
I commanded a naval gunboat patrolling the Mekong Delta. Then when I came home after two tours of duty, I decided that the same sense of service demanded something more of me.Collection: Home
The big hang-up was George Bush wanted to get life lines, you know, so he could call somebody.Collection: Lines
As a public person, I've always tried to reflect what is embodied in our defining ideals as a nation about equality and fairness and justice and so forth.Collection: Justice
In the middle of the cavernous cargo hold was a simple, aluminum coffin with a small American flag draped over it. We were bringing another American soldier, just killed, home to his family and final resting place. The starkness of his coffin in the center of the hold, the silence except for the din of the engines, was a real time cold reminder of the consequences of decisions for which we Senators share responsibility.Collection: Real
And here and now we must insist again that fidelity, honor, and love of country demand untrammeled debate and open dissent. At no time is that truer than in the midst of a war rooted in deceit and justified by continuing deception.Collection: Country
I don't know what compassionate conservative means. Does it mean cutting kids out of after school programs, Does it mean drilling in the arctic wildlife refuge? Does it mean sending kids to Iraq without body armor that's state of the art?Collection: Art
I came into public life during the 1960s when a whole bunch of us believed in our ability to change the world. And we did a lot of things.Collection: World
There is some schedule showing what you (need) to do to get Iraqis standing up and defending themselves which is now suddenly beginning to happen, so there are some signs of progress.Collection: Progress
The measurement in this race is not where you come from, it is "what do you fight for."Collection: Fighting
Reduce US military presence in Iraq; and bring in neighbors.Collection: Military
If you don't have two states, you have one state, already the non-Jewish population outnumbers the Jewish population in one state.Collection: Two
We must uphold the promise of Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, and Clinton and never allow the President and his Republican friends to threaten Social Security by putting it on the Wall Street trading block.Collection: Wall
It’s time we framed every question - every issue -- not in terms of what’s in it for ‘me,’ but what’s in it for all of us?Collection: Issues
In case after case, President Bush's actions have made American women less safe and less secure -- on the job and on the streets. As president, I will put American government and our legal system back on the side of women. I will stand up for their security, ensure their safety, support their rights, and guarantee their dignity. This nation can do no less.Collection: Jobs
I am sympathetic to developing countries’ concerns: because of our emissions it’s their crops that will disappear; because of our inaction, it’s their fields that turn to desert...Collection: Country
Under this [Bush] Administration, America's middle class has been abandoned -- its dreams denied, its Main Street interests ignored and its mainstream values scorned by a White House that puts privilege first.Collection: Dream
We have an electorate that doesn't always pay that much attention to what's going on so people are influenced by a simple slogan rather than the facts or truth or what's happening.Collection: Simple
If Saddam Hussein is unwilling to bend to the international community's already existing order, then he will have invited enforcement, even if that enforcement is mostly at the hands of the United States, a right we retain even if the Security Council fails to act.Collection: Hands
Violence has to end. And Israelis have a bright to defend themselves against any violence that is attacking innocent people with a knife in the old city in Jerusalem or elsewhere. No country should be under siege like that.Collection: Country
How do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam? How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?Collection: Mistake
I supported Israel 100 percent as a senator for 28 years and I've supported it 100 percent as Secretary of State.Collection: Israel
I'm an internationalist. I'd like to see our troops dispersed through the world only at the directive of the United Nations.Collection: Troops
A fundamental premise of politics is we can make this work if people just never figure it out.Collection: People
I believe America is safest and strongest when we are leading the world and we are leading strong alliances.Collection: Strong
What we have to do is go on the offensive. [The science on climate change] has been maligned and misinterpreted, and we need to fight back... [P]eople [need to] stop being moved by these talk show [hosts] and start looking for the facts themselves.Collection: Fighting
If you want to be a Jewish state and you want to remain a democracy, you have to have a two-state solution.Collection: Two
We must recognize that there is no indication that Saddam Hussein has any intention of relenting. So we have an obligation of enormous consequence, an obligation to guarantee that Saddam Hussein cannot ignore the United Nations. He cannot be permitted to go unobserved and unimpeded toward his horrific objective of amassing a stockpile of weapons of mass destruction.Collection: Mass Destruction
The problem with the American health-care system that it is not working for the American family.Collection: Care
My dad was a member of the Greatest Generation that achieved victory in World War II. This was the generation that saved the world from fascism, came home and built the great American middle class, led the way in the civil rights movement, protected our environment, and created great programs like Medicare.Collection: Dad
And whatever our faith - whatever our faith, one belief should bind us all: The measure of our character is our willingness to give of ourselves for others and for our country.Collection: Country
We don't need a president who just says, "Gentlemen, start your engines." We need a president who says, America, let's start our economy and put people back to work.Collection: People
People talk about [Bashar] Assad running Syria. He doesn't control his own country. He's down to about 20, 25 percent of the country. What is this fiction that he is somehow the only person who can save Syria? There's - with Assad there, there is no Syria. So that's what the Iranians and the Russians need to really begin to focus in on.Collection: Running
And if [Vladimir Putin] does fight ISIL alone, how does it work out for Russia to have sided with Assad, sided with Iran, sided with Hizballah, when they're trying to reach out to the rest of the Sunni world in the region? That's not a good equation for Russia.Collection: Fighting
I am not a spokesperson for the church and the church is not a spokesperson for the United States of America.Collection: Running
The Reagan Administration has no rational plan for our military. Instead, it acts on misinformed assumptions about the strength of the Soviet military and a presumed 'window of vulnerability,' which we now know not to exist.Collection: Military
The oceans themselves are threatened and life itself, therefore, and the planet is threatened because of it.Collection: Ocean
Remember the hours after Sept. 11 when we came together as one...It was the worst day we have ever seen, but it brought out the best in all of us.Collection: September 11
You just don't in the 21st century behave in 19th century fashion by invading another country on completely trumped up pre-text.Collection: Country
America has an ability to try to make some things happen that other countries don't necessarily have.Collection: Country
I will be voting to give the President of the United States the authority to use force-- if necessary-- to disarm Saddam Hussein because I believe that a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his hands is a real and grave threat to our security.Collection: Real
Those who deny the science or choose excuses over action are playing with fire.Collection: Fire
I can't take my Catholic belief, my article of faith, and legislate it on a Protestant or a Jew or an Atheist. We have separation of church and state in the United States of America.Collection: Atheist
I saw how different life was on different sides of the same city. I saw the fear in the eyes of people who were not free. I saw the gratitude of people toward the United States for all that we had done. I felt goosebumps as I got off a military train and heard the Army band strike up 'Stars and Stripes Forever.'Collection: Gratitude
Folks, Sarah Palin said she could see Russia from Alaska. Mitt Romney talks like he's only seen Russia by watching 'Rocky IV.'Collection: Alaska
I'm a Catholic, raised a Catholic. I was an altar boy. Religion has been a huge part of my life. It helped lead me through a war, leads me today.Collection: War
We are not interested in a proxy war. Our objective is to change Russia's behavior.Collection: Change