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You don't value families if you force them to take up a collection to buy body armor for a son or daughter in the service.

John F. Kerry

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John F. Kerry
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: December 11
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I don't want to claim that God is on our side. As Abraham Lincoln told us, I want to pray humbly that we are on God's side.
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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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I'm John Kerry, and I'm reporting for duty.
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We need a new approach to national security - a bold, progressive internationalism that stands in stark contrast to the too often belligerent and myopic unilateralism of the Bush Administration.
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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 think the world is safer without Iran with a nuclear weapon. The world has got the potential to be safer if we fully implement the Paris agreement.
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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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Remember the hours after Sept. 11 when we came together as one...It was the worst day we have ever seen, but it brought out the best in all of us.
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