Our troops are terrorizing women and children in the dark of night in Iraq.

The future belongs to freedom, not to fear.

Values are not just words, values are what we live by. They're about the causes that we champion and the people we fight for.

We are a nation of laws and liberties, not of a knock in the night. So it is time to end the era of John Ashcroft. That starts with replacing the Patriot Act with a new law that protects our people and our liberties at the same time.

I personally didn't see personal atrocities in the sense I saw somebody cut a head off or something like that. However, I did take part in free-fire zones, I did take part in harassment and interdiction fire, I did take part in search-and-destroy missions.

You don't value families if you force them to take up a collection to buy body armor for a son or daughter in the service.

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