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John F. Kerry

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John F. Kerry
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: December 11
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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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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 have to recognize that there is a strong, fresh wind blowing, powered by these new information technologies. It will be increasingly difficult for dictators to impose their will through sheer brutality.
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We cannot continue to see the Middle East in the context of 9/11. We must see it in the context of 2011.
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We are not interested in a proxy war. Our objective is to change Russia's behavior.
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Palestinians need to stop the incitement. They need to stop that kind of activity. But at the same time, there is a need to see the broader conflict here and understand that there has to be some kind of ultimately negotiated political track that's going to resolve the difference between Palestinians and Israelis.
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Democrats proposing success in Iraq by political solution.
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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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There are issues of war and peace. And then, there are issues of life and death like this one that are no less morally compelling than war itself.
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Our troops are terrorizing women and children in the dark of night in Iraq.
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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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War on terror is far less of a military operation and far more of an intelligence-gathering, law-enforcement operation.
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You can't play sports without losing sometimes and, in losing, you learn something about grace and how to act under pressure.
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American soldiers [are] going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children, you know, women, breaking sort of the customs of the ñ of ñ the historical customs, religious customs.
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I think the United States is still the indispensable force for positive change and for rule of law and for order and structure.
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You can't have responsibility and you can't have us living up to our ideals unless it's based on a fairly common acceptance of truth, of what is true - what is the truth here?
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Confronting climate change is, in the long run, one of the greatest challenges that we face, and you can see this duty or responsibility laid down in scriptures, clearly.
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I know something about aircraft carriers for real.
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At every step of the way, George W. Bush has put the narrow interests of the few ahead of the interests of most Americans.
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Our military is overextended. Nine out of 10 active-duty Army divisions are either in Iraq, going to Iraq or have come back from Iraq. One way or the other, they're wrapped up in it.
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