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Our purpose now is to reclaim democracy itself. We are here to affirm that when Americans stand up and speak their minds and say America can do better, that is not a challenge to patriotism it is the heart and soul of patriotism.

John F. Kerry

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John F. Kerry
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: December 11
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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 just want to assure you that both President Bush and I have very firm alibis.
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George Bush's vision does not live up to the America I enlisted in the Navy to defend, the America I have fought for in the Senate, and the America that I hope to lead as president.
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We need to talk to all the players in the Middle East, not because we agree with them, but because they play a role.
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No one is going to question my commitment to the defence of our nation. I don't know what it is these Republicans, who didn't serve in any war, have against those of us who are Democrats who did.
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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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America has not led but fled on the issue of global warming.
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I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service.
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What we do right now, today, matters.
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The oceans themselves are threatened and life itself, therefore, and the planet is threatened because of it.
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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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So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real.
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That is what Americans do. We face a challenge - no matter how great - because we know that on the other side there is always hope.
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I don't know what compassionate conservative means. Does it mean cutting kids out of after school programs, Does it mean drilling in the arctic wildlife refuge? Does it mean sending kids to Iraq without body armor that's state of the art?
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