Maxioms by Senator John Kerry
There is no greater breach of the public trust than knowingly misleading the country into war. In a democracy, we read more
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.
The responsible choice would be to honor those who have worn our nation's uniform, but the administration made a different read more
The responsible choice would be to honor those who have worn our nation's uniform, but the administration made a different choice. They're raising veterans' health care fees by $250 a year while cutting taxes for millionaires.
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.
The world today has a strong democratic core shaped by American ingenuity, sacrifice, and spirit. But on the periphery are read more
The world today has a strong democratic core shaped by American ingenuity, sacrifice, and spirit. But on the periphery are many unstable and dangerous places, where terrorists seek to impose a medieval dark age. As we learned so brutally and so personally, we do face a new threat. But we also face a renewed choice - between isolation in a perilous world, which I believe is impossible in any event, and engagement to shape a safer world which is the urgent imperative of our time.
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.