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.

When you see Washington consistently turning a blind eye to suffering, don’t sit back and apathetically blame indifference. The loudest read more

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

I don't know what compassionate conservative means. Does it mean cutting kids out of after school programs, Does it mean read more

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?

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.

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?"