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John F. Kerry

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John F. Kerry
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: December 11
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I think that our own crisis of democracy is in its own way affecting our ability to leverage in the same way that we used to in the world.
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How do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam? How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?
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[Bashar] Assad has made a series of choices ever since then that is literally destroying his country.
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If Saddam Hussein is unwilling to bend to the international community's already existing order, then he will have invited enforcement, even if that enforcement is mostly at the hands of the United States, a right we retain even if the Security Council fails to act.
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America is the most powerful economy in the world. We're an $18-trillion-dollar economy.
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I'm glad the President finally found an economic development program. I'm just sad that it's only in Baghdad.
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American soldiers [are] going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children, you know, women, breaking sort of the customs of the ñ of ñ the historical customs, religious customs.
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Violence has to end. And Israelis have a bright to defend themselves against any violence that is attacking innocent people with a knife in the old city in Jerusalem or elsewhere. No country should be under siege like that.
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Climate change is real. The science is compelling. And the longer we wait, the harder the problem will be to solve.
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Patriots don't go to Russia. They don't seek asylum in Cuba. They don't seek asylum in Venezuela. They fight their cause here. Edward Snowden is a coward. He is a traitor. And he has betrayed his country. And if he wants to come home tomorrow to face the music, he can do so.
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Great challenges confront our great nation. We seek to meet them by rising to the task, not by defining our country down.
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Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, others, knew how to lead. They knew how to ask the American people for the right things.
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It's pretty standard fare in political discourse. You misconstrue what somebody said. You isolate a statement, you lend your interpretation to it and then feign moral outrage. And Democrats have been doing it for years.
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I want to start by saying something nice about President Bush. Of all the presidents we've had with the last name of Bush, his economic plan ranks in the top two.
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What we need to do is raise the minimum wage. We also need to hold onto equal pay. Women work for 76 cents on the dollar for the same work that men do. That's not right in America.
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If America can go to the moon, then in the decades to come we should not ever have to have young Americans sent to any part of the world to defend and die for America`s gluttony on fossil fuel.
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I think it was the right decision to disarm Saddam Hussein. And when the president made the decision, I supported him, and I support the fact that we did disarm him.
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It's the [George Bush] president's fiscal policies that have driven up the biggest deficits in American history. He's added more debt to the debt of the United States in four years than all the way from George Washington to Ronald Reagan put together.
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We cannot continue to see the Middle East in the context of 9/11. We must see it in the context of 2011.
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What is happening is policy in Israel is being driven by the settlers who don't support a two-state solution, who want their settlements to prevent the possibility of two states. They openly say that.
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