John Edwards Quotes on Time (16 Quotes)


    What they've learned and documented over time is actually the repayment rate for low-income families is at least as good, in some cases higher, than other families.

    I believe the president should have been given the authority he was given. I believe it's a very good thing that Saddam is gone. ... I think at the time it was the right thing to do to give the president that authority. I think if we'd have given John Kerry that authority we'd be in a very different place because he would have built a coalition to be successful.

    We're going to try to do a little better this time, and I'm convinced we will.

    This president is shifting the tax burden right on the backs of working, middle-class Americans, ... If he spent some time out here with these middle-class families, he'd understand they can't take it.

    Nobody who works full time should have to raise children in poverty or in fear that one health emergency or pink slip will drive them over the cliff.


    ignored Haiti the same way he's ignored most of the countries in this hemisphere. ... We should have been engaged over a long period of time, in a serious way, at least through diplomacy, not to allow this to get to a crisis situation where it now is.

    I've been looking forward to the time when this is a two-person race and people will focus on Senator Kerry and myself, ... It now appears that we're very close to that place, and maybe even there.

    The North Carolina senator also criticized Bush for talking to Democrats for the first time, six days before the election. ... a record of failure.

    Why would anyone want to take overtime pay away from as many as six million Americans at a time when they need that money the most

    The argument for going to war with Iraq was based on intelligence that we now know was inaccurate, ... The information the American people were hearing from the president -- and that I was being given by our intelligence community -- wasn't the whole story. Had I known this at the time, I never would have voted for this war.

    What we have been preparing for the entire time is a nomination process that's going to go well into March. We're prepared for that. We have the resources to do that.

    Ignore the polls. They're wrong all the time.

    It is actually the responsibility of the president of the U.S. to be able to do two things at the same time,

    I know John Kerry well, ... I spent six years working with him in the Senate, and we spent a lot of time on the campaign trail together. And I'll tell you one thing He has what it takes inside to be president of the United States -- backbone, strength, courage, heart.

    The president of the United States actually has to be able to walk and chew gum at the same time.

    This is the time for you and I together to set our sights on what is possible, what we can do together, ... It's time for us to quiet the skeptics, to lift the voices of those who want to strive, to seek, to never yield on these moral issues that tug at the soul of this country.


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