Winter Soldier John Kerry

Updated February 12, 2010

"We also see how revved up the teabaggers are at the thought of hijacking health care reform and every chance we have at making progress in Washington."

"[I] don't want to sort of leap into the larger meaning of, you know, inappropriately, but on the other hand, the weather service has told us we are going to have more and more intense storms. And insurance companies are beginning to look at this issue and understand this is related to the intensity of storms that is related to the warming of the earth."

"I think the Fairness Doctrine ought to be there and I also think equal time doctrine ought to come back. I mean these are the people who wiped out one of the most profound changes in the balance of the media is when the conservatives got rid of the equal time requirements. And the result is that the, you know, they've been able to squeeze down and squeeze out opinion of opposing views."

"So we have a crisis of confidence in the Middle East — in the world, really. I've never seen our country as isolated, as much as a sort of international pariah for a number of reasons as it is today."

"You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq."

"I could have gone to 1600 Pennsylvania and killed the real bird with one stone."

"And there is no reason, Bob, that young American soldiers need to be going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night,terrorizing kids and children, you know, women, breaking sort of the customs of the--of--the historical customs, religious customs."

"Did I expect George Bush to f--- it up as badly as he did? I don't think anybody did."

--JOHN KERRY