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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?

John F. Kerry

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John F. Kerry
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: December 11
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I will never conduct a war or start a war because we want to the United States of America should only go to war because we have to. And if you live by that guidance, you'll never have veterans throwing away their medals or standing up in protest.
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You just don't invade another country on phony pretext in order to assert your interests!
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Reduce US military presence in Iraq and bring in neighbors.
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There's an agreement that Syria should be a unified country, united that it needs to be secular that ISIL needs to be taken on and that there needs to be a managed transition, but there is a difference obviously in what that means and what that outcome may or may not be.
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I mean, all of these things that [Bashar Assad] has done, there's no way even if President Obama wanted to just play along that you could actually achieve peace, because there are 65 million Sunni in between Baghdad and the border of Turkey, Syria, and Iraq, who will never, ever again accept Assad as a member - as a legitimate leader.
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We will fight anyone who wishes to impose a totalitarian system upon a free society, and we will always prevail. But we will not do so with a fear-stricken administration which seeks to deprive us of freedoms in the name of 'defending' us from the terrorists, who also seek to deprive us of our freedoms.
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I believe America's best days are ahead of us because I believe that the future belongs to freedom, not to fear.
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I know that our country is strongest when we lead the world, when we lead strong alliances. And that's the way Eisenhower and Reagan and Kennedy and others did it.
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We must retool our nation to prepare for the challenge we already face to maintain our position in the global economy. And this much is certain: America will not have national security without economic security.
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These guys [Republicans] are the most crooked, you know, lying group I've ever seen.
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We deserve a president of the United States who will write laws for all Americans, not for campaign contributors. And I intend to be a president for all Americans who takes back the flag of our country because it doesn't belong to any party, doesn't belong to any president.
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We were sent to Vietnam to kill Communism. But we found instead that we were killing women and children.
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I voted to threaten the use of force to make Saddam Hussein comply with the resolutions of the United Nations.
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America has everything most countries envy. A Constitution which is the treasure of mankind, a strong military, natural resources of every kind. Above all, as Tocqueville said, a good people, which is what makes us great.
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Unlike George Bush and his friends at the big oil companies, I'm going to work for a real energy policy for this country that decreases America's dependence on foreign oil and helps lower the costs to American families.
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President Clinton was often known as the first black president. I wouldn't be upset if I could earn the right to be the second.
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Gender based violence anywhere is a threat to peace and security everywhere.
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I believe America is safest and strongest when we are leading the world and we are leading strong alliances.
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The military's job is to win the war. A president's job is to win the peace.
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If you don't have two states, you have one state, already the non-Jewish population outnumbers the Jewish population in one state.
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