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What Kerry Said And What You Need To Know - Continued
* "I know what we have to do in Iraq. We need a President who has the credibility to bring our allies to our side and share the burden."
"Kerry speaks with contempt for allies such as Britain, calling Bush's "coalition of the willing" a "coalition of the coerced and the bribed... He speaks as if only those who oppose America's objectives have a chance of earning his respect." - Dick Cheney (03/17/04)
* "Let there be no mistake: I will never hesitate to use force when it is required."
"I'm an internationalist. I'd like to see our troops dispersed through the world only at the directive of the United Nations." - John F. Kerry (Harvard Crimson 1970)
* "To all who serve in our armed forces today, I say, help is on the way."
John Kerry voted against the $87 billion supplemental appropriations bill for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
* "We shouldn't be letting ninety-five percent of container ships come into our ports without ever being physically inspected."
"Nine million containers arrive on those ships into our Nation's 361 seaports every year." - Tom Ridge (06/21/04)
* "In the end, it's not just policies and programs that matter; the president who sits at that desk must be guided by principle."
"Thank you for contacting me to express your opposition... to the early use of military force by the US against Iraq. I share your concerns. On January 11, I voted in favor of a resolution that would have insisted that economic sanctions be given more time to work and against a resolution giving the president the immediate authority to go to war." - John F. Kerry letter to constituent Wallace Carter (01/22/91)
"Thank you very much for contacting me to express your support for the actions of President Bush in response to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. >From the outset of the invasion, I have strongly and unequivocally supported President Bush's response to the crisis and the policy goals he has established with our military deployment in the Persian Gulf." - John F. Kerry letter to that same constituent Wallace Carter (01/31/91)
* "We believe in the family value of caring for our children..."
John Kerry voted NO on banning partial birth abortions. - Congressional record
* "You don't value families by denying real prescription drug coverage to seniors..."
"In December 2003, President Bush signed legislation that will make prescription drug coverage available to 40 million seniors and people with disabilities through Medicare." - Bush/Cheney o4 web-site
* "As President, I will not privatize Social Security."
"The Social Security system is expected to begin running a deficit within only 15 years (paying out more in benefits than it collects in taxes). Current estimates calculate that, without reform, it will be unable to pay promised benefits until around 2037... The size of the problem should not be underestimated. The government will owe an estimated total of about $9 trillion more to current workers when they retire than it will have collected from them in taxes. This Social Security liability is more than twice the official national debt. It is larger than the total value of the United States gross domestic product." - The Social Security Reform Center
* "Family and faith."
"A Catholic lawyer has filed heresy charges against Sen. John Kerry with the Archdiocese of Boston, accusing the Democratic presidential candidate of bringing "most serious scandal to the American public" by receiving Holy Communion as a pro-choice Catholic." - The Washington Times (07/01/04)
* "Hard work and responsibility."
"In 2004, America will be faced with the second opportunity to elect a president who has no real work experience outside government. Worse yet, as my colleague Rabbi Shmuley Boteach pointed out in his most recent column, Kerry's main work experience seems to have been marrying extremely rich women." - Joseph Farah (05/27/04)
* "Next, we will trade and compete in the world. But our plan calls for a fair playing field - because if you give the American worker a fair playing field, there's nobody in the world the American worker can't compete against."
"In 1993, Kerry voted YES on the North American Free Trade Agreement. This agreement over time removes most barriers to trade and investment among the United States, Canada, and Mexico... Opponents still maintain that NAFTA has launched a race-to-the-bottom in wages, destroyed hundreds of thousands of good U.S. jobs, undermined democratic control of domestic policy-making, and threatened health, environmental and food safety standards." - Dave Eberhart, writer for News Max (03/20/04)
* "I will reduce the tax burden on small business. And I will roll back the tax cuts for the wealthiest individuals who make over $200,000 a year, so we can invest in job creation, health care and education."
"A tax increase on the top one percent, means they: Will be less likely to create a new business or expand an existing one, and Will be aware that the increased risk of starting a new business outweighs its potential returns... CDA (Center for Data Analysis) analysts sought to estimate the economic effect of raising taxes to pay for new spending. Using the 2003 Global Insight U.S. Macroeconomic Model, economists at the Center for Data Analysis simulated an $87 billion tax increase in personal income taxes in 2004. The CDA simulation increased personal income tax rates and taxes on capital gains and dividends. The Center's study found that from 2004 to 2008: $14.3 billion in potential economic growth would be lost each year. Over 174,000 potential jobs would fail to materialize each year. $52 billion less disposable personal income each year." - The Heritage Foundation (10/17/03)
* "Our education plan for a stronger America sets high standards and demands accountability from parents, teachers, and schools."
"Most states have met or are at least on the way to meeting 75 percent of the major requirements of the No Child Left Behind law, according to the nonpartisan Education Commission of the States... Among the findings: -98 percent of states are on track to define what a "persistently dangerous" school means, a designation that allows students in such schools to transfer... -92 percent are on track to publicly report achievement data for all major groups of students... -65 percent are on track to set clear, substantial expectations for students... -53 percent are on track to identify which schools are in need of improvement... -45 percent are on track to provide the promised "scientifically based" help to schools that have been targeted for improvement... -22 percent are on track to make new and current elementary, middle and secondary teachers of core subjects demonstrate that they are competent in their subjects." - Ben Feller, writier for AZCentral (07/15/04)
"We have to get rid of this one-size-fits-all testing mania that is destroying the ability of people to apply discretion." - John F. Kerry (The Los Angeles Times 11/24/03)
"These attacks (see Kerry quote above) come less than two years after Congress overwhelmingly approved... the No Child Left Behind Act - with just six Democrats voting against it in both the House and Senate. The bill drew support from so many Democrats, including Kerry, largely because it extended the Clinton model of offering schools more help but stiffening the demands on them to show results." - Ronald Brownstein (The Los Angeles Times writer 11/24/03)
* "And it gives a tax credit to families for each and every year of college."
"The National Center for Education Statistics report, "Getting Ready for College," found that while the vast majority (91 percent) of students and parents report plans for higher education, they are generally unable to estimate accurately the cost of college tuition. When students and parents could offer estimates of tuition costs, they tended to overestimate, especially for public institutions... President Bush's 2004 budget request expands overall student aid available for postsecondary education to a record $62 billion, an increase of $3.1 billion, or 5 percent over the president's 2003 request. Working families will also see savings of $22.7 billion over five years in tax relief for expenses related to higher education." - U.S. Department of Education (10/01/03)
* "Our health care plan for a stronger America cracks down on the waste, greed, and abuse in our health care system and will save families up to $1,000 a year on their premiums."
"John Edwards made nearly $27 million as a personal injury lawyer who won a string of multimillion-dollar jury verdicts and settlements. The Kerry-Edwards presidential campaign released Edwards' income figures in a statement Friday in response to questions about the taxes he paid after he created a tax shelter in 1995. Edwards paid $9,353,448 in federal taxes on his income of $26,869,496, but the shelter allowed him to avoid paying $591,112 in Medicare tax, the figures provided by the campaign show." - The San Francisco Chronicle (07/10/04)
* "And when I'm President, America will stop being the only advanced nation in the world which fails to understand that health care is not a privilege for the wealthy, the connected, and the elected - it is a right for all Americans."
"Health care in the modern world is a complex, scientific, technological service. How can anybody be born with a right to such a thing? Under the American system you have a right to health care if you can pay for it, i.e., if you can earn it by your own action and effort. But nobody has the right to the services of any professional individual or group simply because he wants them and desperately needs them." - Leonard Peikoff, Ph.D. (12/11/93)
* "We value an America that controls its own destiny because it's finally and forever independent of Mideast oil."
John F. Kerry voted against ANWR oil exploration seven times - Congressional record
* "I want to address these next words directly to President George W. Bush: In the weeks ahead, let's be optimists, not just opponents."
"After recession, 9-11 and war, today our economy has been growing for ten straight months. Historic tax relief helped create 1.4 million jobs. Inflation, interest and mortgage rates are low. And homeownership rates are at record highs. We've met serious challenges and things are beginning to turn around... The economy added 1,100 new jobs in May and the unemployment rate has dropped to 5.6 percent.So, what does John Kerry say? He's still pessimistic, on a misery tour talking about days of malaise and the Great Depression." - Bush/Ceney 04 (06/21/04)
* "This is our time to reject the kind of politics calculated to divide race from race, group from group, region from region."
"We will not stand by, and allow them to move this brother so that some white interloper can expand his business." - Al Sharpton (1995)
"George W Bush has chosen tax cuts for the wealthy..." - John F. Kerry
"Rev. Jesse Jackson referred to Jews as "Hymies" and to New York City as "Hymietown" in January 1984 during a conversation with a black Washington Post reporter, Milton Coleman." - The Washington Post (03/27/98)
* "What if we have a president who believes in science, so we can unleash the wonders of discovery like stem cell research to treat illness and save millions of lives?"
"Contrary to ongoing research with adult stem cells, which do not cause death and are supported by President Bush and unimpeded federal funds, not one human being is being treated with embryonic stem cells anywhere in the world. No clinical trials are in progress using this approach. No studies with human embryonic stem cells are even being contemplated. None! And why not? Because these cells are unpredictable and tend to create tumors in animals being treated with them." - Dr. James Dobson (06/15/04)
* "It is time to reach for the next dream. It is time to look to the next horizon. For America, the hope is there. The sun is rising. Our best days are still to come."
"It's morning in America" - Ronald Wilson Reagan
"I've spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don't know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. But in my mind it was a tall proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, wind-swept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace, a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity, and if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here. That's how I saw it, and see it still." - Ronald Wilson Reagan
* "Goodnight, God bless you, and God bless America."
Now THAT I can agree with.
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