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Click here for 32 full quotes from John Kerry in the book A Call to Service.
OR click on an issue category below for a subset. |
| OnTheIssues.org excerpts: (click on issues for details) |
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Budget & Economy Base policy on broad growth and progressive taxation. |
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Civil Rights Voted for PATRIOT Act, but genuinely alarmed at PATRIOT II. |
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Corporations Regulate on side of citizens, not on side of corporations. Offshore tax havens cause higher middle class taxes. |
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Crime Bush wants to eliminate federal assistance to local police. |
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Education Supported �No Child Left Behind,� but Bush reneged. Stop viewing charter schools as threatening innovation. Nothing good about vouchers can�t be done in public schools. |
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Energy & Oil Dismissal of Kyoto indicative of Bush�s unilateralism. Drilling for oil doesn�t gain energy independence. Apollo project approach to energy independence. |
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Environment Make environmental justice an EPA priority. |
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Foreign Policy Supports multilateral cooperative internationalism. |
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Health Care Simultaneously address costs, coverage, and choice. Cut $350B of bureaucracy and cover 90% of Americans. |
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Homeland Security The New War: We are no longer safe at home. Modernize the Middle East to prevent future terrorism. Invest billions to secure loose nukes abroad. Focus on first responders instead of duct tape. |
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Jobs Weekly economic policy summit to create jobs. |
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Principles & Values Redeem promise for a better America for our children. Bush broke his three biggest campaign promises. Campaign built around a call to service. Raised Catholic, but family history includes Jews. Persecuted Catholics rely on church-state separation. |
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Tax Reform GOP tax policy comforts the comfortable. |
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Technology Invest in high-speed commuter rail & double-dip benefits. Member of �Digital Dozen� of tech-savvy legislators. |
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War & Peace Supported Kosovo action & Powell Doctrine. Palestinians renounce right of return; get treated equally. |
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Welfare & Poverty Ok for government to partner with non-profits & for-profits. Expand EITC as anti-poverty measure. |
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