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It's hard to believe that in the greatest democracy in the world, we need legislation to prevent the government from writing and paying for the news.

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John F. Kerry
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: December 11
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I am not a spokesperson for the church and the church is not a spokesperson for the United States of America.
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After Mitt Romney said it would be naive to go into Pakistan to pursue the terrorists, it took President Obama, against the advice of many, to give that order and finally rid this earth of Osama bin Laden. Ask Osama bin Laden is he is better off now than he was four years ago.
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So we can do a better job of homeland security. I can do a better job of waging a smarter, more effective war on terror and guarantee that we will go after the terrorists. I will hunt them down, and we'll kill them, we'll capture them. We'll do whatever is necessary to be safe.
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