Senator John Kerry
Acceptance Speech Highlights
My fellow Americans: We are here tonight united in one simple purpose — to make America stronger at home and respected in the world. This is the most important election of our lifetime. The stakes are high. We are a nation at war — a global war on terror against an enemy unlike any we have ever known before. And here at home, wages are falling, health care costs are rising, and our great middle class is shrinking. People are working weekends; they’re working two jobs, three jobs, and they’re still not getting ahead. We’re told that outsourcing jobs is…
