Tuesday Convention Wire Archive

— -- TUESDAY, JULY 27

TERESA HEINZ KERRY: "My name is Teresa Heinz Kerry. And by now I hope it will come as no surprise to anyone that I have something to say." "I learned something then, and I believe it still. There is a value in taking a stand whether or not anyone may be noticing and whether or not it is a risky thing to do. And if even those who are in danger can raise their lonely voices, isn't more required of all of us, in this land where liberty had her birth?" MORE

RON REAGAN: "Let me assure you, I am not here to make a political speech, and the topic at hand should not -- must not -- have anything to do with partisanship." "Now, there are those who would stand in the way of this remarkable future, who would deny the federal funding so crucial to basic research... A few of these folks, needless to say, are just grinding a political axe and they should be ashamed of themselves. But many are well-meaning and sincere. Their belief is just that, an article of faith, and they are entitled to it." MORE | TEXT

BARACK OBAMA: "Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation, not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal..." "Yet even as we speak, there are those who are preparing to divide us, the spin masters and negative ad peddlers who embrace the politics of anything goes. Well, I say to them tonight, there's not a liberal America and a conservative America -- there's the United States of America. There's not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America; there's the United States of America." MORE

HOWARD DEAN: "I'm Howard Dean. And I'm voting for John Kerry," says Dean after receiving raucous response from the Convention crowd."Never again will we be ashamed to call ourselves Democrats. Never. Never. Never. We're not just going to change presidents, we're going to change this country and reclaim the American dream." MORE