It's one thing to be certain, but you can be certain and you can be wrong.

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

If America is at war, I won't speak a word without measuring how it'll sound to the guys doing the fighting when they're listening to their radios in the desert.

Those localized efforts take a long time and they don't deal with the larger issue of ISIL and the question of what you're going to do to really have a solution here. We have to save Syria.

War on terror is far less of a military operation and far more of an intelligence-gathering, law-enforcement operation.

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

When President Bush sees America, he sees only a military superpower. I see a moral and idealistic beacon. Mr. Bush may talk about democracy all he wants, but it is not democracy to wilfully disdain and heap scorn on world opinion. We do not command moral leadership by starting pre-emptive wars.