Here is the full quote in the NYT.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/10/magazine/10KERRY.html?pagewanted=print&position=
"When I asked Kerry what it would take for Americans to feel safe again, he displayed a much less apocalyptic worldview. ''We have to get back to the place we were, where terrorists are not the focus of our lives, but they're a nuisance,'' Kerry said. ''As a former law-enforcement person, I know we're never going to end prostitution. We're never going to end illegal gambling. But we're going to reduce it, organized crime, to a level where it isn't on the rise. It isn't threatening people's lives every day, and fundamentally, it's something that you continue to fight, but it's not threatening the fabric of your life."
Ooops. 266 beat me to it. At least I added the link.
Geeez they have not been just a "nuisance" since they were fighting the Ruskees in Afghanistan
If Ketchup Boy wins in November, the Japanese would have been 64 years early with Pearl Harbor, the Germans would have been 89 years early with the Lusitania, the Brits would have been just under 200 years early with "impressing" our merchant marine into their Navy (need I go on)?
Here lies THE FUNDAMENTAL difference between the DemonRATs and the Pubbies (even more so than taxes and size/scope of government). The RATs see terrorism as nothing more serious than prostitution and organized crime, and as something to be "managed" and tolerated. The Pubbies see terrorism as a means of warfare to be thoroughly defeated. Take a guess as to which argument rings truer to the terrorists (hint; they see terrorism as a means of warfare to threaten and ultimately change "the fabric of your life".)