The size of your paycheck shouldn’t determine your child’s future.

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

Its [Dreams from My Father] also a reflection about how we might start a better conversation in our democracy about how to solve problems, because it feels as if our political system - it just seems there is so much cynicism and negativity in our politics.

With respect to the pledge I made that if you like your plan you can keep it. The way I put that forward unequivocally ended up not being accurate.

If we are truly created equal then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well

There’s no black male my age, who’s a professional, who hasn’t come out of a restaurant and is waiting for their car and somebody didn’t hand them their car keys.

They will tell you that the Americans who sleep in the streets and beg for food got there because they’re all lazy or weak of spirit. That the inner-city children who are trapped in dilapidated schools can’t learn and won’t learn and so we should just give up on them entirely. That the innocent people being slaughtered and expelled from their homes half a world away are somebody else’s problem to take care of.