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Politics has always been the art of the possible. Today it's too often the art of the probable - tinkering around the edges without any greater vision, without a sense of optimism and imagination.

John F. Kerry

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John F. Kerry
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: December 11
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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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I look forward to standing up and holding George Bush accountable for pushing seniors off of Medicare into HMOs.
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In order to have the best intelligence in the world to know who the terrorists are and where they are and what they're plotting, you've got to have the best cooperation you've ever had in the world.
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There the Bush Administration has offered only a merry-go-round policy. They got up on their high horse, whooped and hollered, rode around in circles and ended right back where they'd started.
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There is no bigger judgment for a president of the United States than how you take a nation to war.
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It's likely that people will say we're all interested in destroying - ISIL is a threat to everybody. There isn't one country in the region that doesn't despise what ISIL stands for and is doing and that doesn't want to eliminate them.
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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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In a few years, you should be able to plug your American-made plug-in hybrid into the outlet in your garage, so that you never use a drop of gas on your daily commute. This won't happen overnight, but I promise you, it is closer than you think.
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I think there has been an exaggeration [of the terrorist threat].
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I can tell you, Massachusetts, fastest growing sector of our economy is clean energy and energy efficiency companies. And they're growing faster than any other sector.
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You just don't in the 21st century behave in 19th century fashion by invading another country on completely trumped up pre-text.
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Gender based violence anywhere is a threat to peace and security everywhere.
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We still have a lot of work to do to protect our own democracy.
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