16 John Kerry Quotes on Politics

John Kerry quotes on politics

2. We feel we have been used in the worst fashion by the administration of this country. ... And we cannot consider ourselves America's best men when we are ashamed of and hated what we were called on to do in Southeast Asia.

9. We're going to keep pounding. These guys [Bush Administration] are the most crooked, you know, lying group I've ever seen. It's scary.

12. I'm John Kerry and I'm reporting for duty.

16. I'm sick and tired of these despicable Republican attacks that always seem to come from those who never can be found to serve in war, but love to attack those who did. I'm not going to be lectured by a stuffed suit White House mouthpiece standing behind a podium.

17. Someone has to die so that President Nixon won't be, and these are his words, 'the first President to lose a war'.

20. What we need now is not just a regime change in Saddam Hussein and Iraq, but we need a regime change in the United States.

23. I think we can reduce the size of Washington. Get rid of the Energy Department. Get rid of the Agriculture Department, or at least render it three-quarters the size it is today; there are more agriculture bureaucrats than there are farmers in this country.

33. From the moment I take office, I will stand up to the special interests and stand with hardworking families so that we can give America back its future and its ideals.

34. George Bush's vision does not live up to the America I enlisted in the Navy to defend, the America I have fought for in the Senate, and the America that I hope to lead as president.

35. George W. Bush. The 'W' stands for 'wrong'.

38. I look forward to standing up and holding George Bush accountable for pushing seniors off of Medicare into HMOs.

39. I promise just to serve two terms. Republicans do it differently. They just have the son repeat the father's whole first term.

41. No one is going to question my commitment to the defence of our nation. I don't know what it is these Republicans, who didn't serve in any war, have against those of us who are Democrats who did.

43. 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.

44. This president has created an economy that feeds the special interests, the powerful and the corporate power, and he has not helped the average American worker advance their cause. I will.

46. When will this government admit that I was wrong, I mean that they were wrong.