John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded.

For we have always understood that when times change, so must we, that fidelity to our founding principles requires new responses to new challenges, that preserving our individual freedoms ultimately requires collective action.

I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Anybody gone into Whole Foods lately and see what they charge for arugula? I mean, they're charging a lot of money for this stuff.

Let me tell your something. I'm from Chicago. I don't break.

...Started by missionaries in 1841, Punahou Academy had grown into a prestigious prep school, an incubator for island elites...It hadn't been easy to get me in, my grandparents told her (my mother); there was a long waiting list, and I was considered only because of the intervention of Gramps' boss, who was an alumnus (my first experience with affirmative action, it seems, had little to do with race).