Best Quotes by Senator John Kerry (Top 10)
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If anything prepares you to be president, it's being a Red Sox fan
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When you see Washington consistently turning a blind eye to suffering, don't sit back and apathetically blame indifference. The loudest voices may be delivering the worst messages today, but history shows that grass-roots energy has the power to change anything when that energy is focused toward justice
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There is a direct link between the federal tax cut of 2001 and state tax increases in 2003. When the federal government's mistakes force states to raise their taxes, it not only robs Peter to pay Paul, but it hurts hard-working families and it undermines our economy's strength
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This budget is like an Enron budget — smoke the numbers, cook the books, hide the truth and hope no one finds out
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There the Bush Administration has offered only a merry go-round policy. They got up on their high horse, whooped and hollered, rode around in circles, and ended right back where they'd started
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The courage and bravery of our young men and women fighting overseas continues to inspire all of us, and indeed inspire the free world and those yearning for freedom
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The American spirit wears no political label. In service to others and yes, in sacrifice for our country, there are no Republicans; there are no Democrats; there are only Americans
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We,re in a battle for our lives for things that really matter to us. There's a shell game going on like I've never seen before.
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When Bush had an opportunity to capture or kill bin Laden, he took his focus off of him, outsourced the job to Afghan warlords and bin Laden escaped
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We're busy exporting Democracy abroad to Afghanistan and Iraq, which is fine, but what we really need to do is a better job at making our Democracy work right here at home
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More Senator John Kerry Quotes
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We need to guarantee equal rights and civil rights and say that, here in America, workers have the right to organize - women have the right to choose - and justice belongs to everyone regardless of race or gender or sexual orientation
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And it is time for those who talk about family values to start valuing families
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There is no greater breach of the public trust than knowingly misleading the country into war. In a democracy, we simply cannot tolerate the abuse of this trust by the government
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In this remarkable time for the world, I refuse to believe it's time to stop believing in the possibilities of our remarkable country. I refuse to accept the downsizing of the American Dream. I refuse to bet against American entrepreneurial spirit and American ingenuity. The competition's tough, and it requires us to be tougher - tough-minded, never hard hearted
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So much promise stretches before us. Americans have always reached for the impossible, looked to the next horizon and asked, "What if?
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Too many people in America believe that if you are pro-choice that means pro-abortion. It doesn't. I don't want abortion. Abortion should be the rarest thing in the world. I am actually personally opposed to abortion. But I don't believe that I have a right to take what is an article of faith to me and legislate it to other people. That's not how it works in America
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It’s hard to believe that in the greatest democracy in the world, we need legislation to prevent the government from writing and paying for the news.
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Climate change is real. The science is compelling. And the longer we wait, the harder the problem will be to solve.
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If America can go to the moon, then in the decades to come we should not ever have to have young Americans sent to any part of the world to defend and die for America's gluttony on fossil fuel
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America has not led but fled on the issue of global warming.
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Values are not just words, values are what we live by. They're about the causes that we champion and the people we fight for
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We can no longer allow America’s dependence on foreign oil to compromise our energy security. Instead, we must invest in inventing new ways to power our cars and our economy. I’ll put my faith in American science and ingenuity any day before I depend on Saudi Arabia.
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History will judge the invasion of Iraq one of the greatest foreign policy misadventures of all time.
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The American people deserve to know that they're not just watching the administration's spin on their local newscasts — they're paying for it, too.
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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?
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