Maxioms by Senator John Kerry
Not to wax nostalgic about the 1970’s, but back then people got upset when they saw injustice. They got tired read more
Not to wax nostalgic about the 1970’s, but back then people got upset when they saw injustice. They got tired of seeing our air, land and water polluted. They were shocked when the Cuyahoga River in Ohio was polluted so badly it caught fire. And on one great day 20 million Americans marched all across this land. Politicians had no choice but to take notice.
This budget is like an Enron budget -- smoke the numbers, cook the books, hide the truth and hope no read more
This budget is like an Enron budget -- smoke the numbers, cook the books, hide the truth and hope no one finds out.
It’s a sorry statement about how broken Washington is that we could not take advantage of this unique and sad read more
It’s a sorry statement about how broken Washington is that we could not take advantage of this unique and sad moment in history and enact serious lobbying reform. We owed it to the people who sent us to Washington to root out corruption, and the Senate turned its back on a golden opportunity today.
A lot of Americans think they got a tax cut, and they didn't because their local property tax went up, read more
A lot of Americans think they got a tax cut, and they didn't because their local property tax went up, their excise tax went up, their sales tax went up, and their prices went up and everything else, because we failed to invest in some of these other things we ought to be doing. ... We are squeezing the middle class, we are losing the middle class, and the gap between the haves and the have-nots is growing wider and wider, not closing as it used to be.
Our military deserves leadership that matches their service and patriotism. Getting our troops the pay raise they deserve is the read more
Our military deserves leadership that matches their service and patriotism. Getting our troops the pay raise they deserve is the very least we can do to show how much we value everything they do for us.
