Senator John Kerry

Politics has always been the art of the possible. Today it's too often the art of the probable - tinkering read more

Politics has always been the art of the possible. Today it's too often the art of the probable - tinkering around the edges without any greater vision, without a sense of optimism and imagination.

It’s time we framed every question - every issue -- not in terms of what’s in it for ‘me,’ but read more

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.

It’s hard to believe that in the greatest democracy in the world, we need legislation to prevent the government from read more

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.

So much promise stretches before us. Americans have always reached for the impossible, looked to the next horizon and asked, read more

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

But I can tell you what I believe: When tens of thousands of innocent souls have perished in Darfur-when 11 read more

But I can tell you what I believe: When tens of thousands of innocent souls have perished in Darfur-when 11 million children are without health insurance-when our colossal debt subjects our economic future to the whims of Asian bankers-no one can tell me that faith demands this Senate spend its time arguing over a handful of judges. No one with those priorities can use my faith to intimidate me.