Senator John Kerry quotes:

If anything prepares you to be president, it's being a Red Sox fan

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

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

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

This budget is like an Enron budget -- smoke the numbers, cook the books, hide the truth and hope no one finds out

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

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.

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

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

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

And it is time for those who talk about family values to start valuing families

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

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? And when you ask that simple question what's in it for all of us? the direction not taken in America could not be more clear or compelling.

America has not led but fled on the issue of global warming.

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

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

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

So much promise stretches before us. Americans have always reached for the impossible, looked to the next horizon and asked, "What if?

We must retool our nation to prepare for the challenge we already face to maintain our position in the global economy. And this much is certain America will not have national security without economic security.

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

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