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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.

John F. Kerry

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John F. Kerry
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: December 11
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As a public person, I've always tried to reflect what is embodied in our defining ideals as a nation about equality and fairness and justice and so forth.
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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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America is the one that has led the effort to strengthen NATO and strengthen the front-line states against Russia's pressures.
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Our troops are terrorizing women and children in the dark of night in Iraq.
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My definition of patriotism is to defend your country with the truth, no matter the consequences.
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It appears that with the deadline for exile come and gone, Saddam Hussein has chosen to make military force the ultimate weapons inspections enforcement mechanism. If so, the only exit strategy is victory, this is our common mission and the world's cause.
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It's the [George Bush] president's fiscal policies that have driven up the biggest deficits in American history. He's added more debt to the debt of the United States in four years than all the way from George Washington to Ronald Reagan put together.
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You just don't invade another country on phony pretext in order to assert your interests!
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I'm motivated by my passion for our basic values, protecting our interests, and for protecting the future.
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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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If Russia is there [in Syria] alone fighting them [ISIL], guess what? Russia becomes the target and Russia starts seeing - who knows - MANPADs will find their way in there, airplanes will fall out of the sky. They will become vilified. They'll become the new magnet, together with Assad, for the jihadis.
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Three-quarters of [Bashar Assad] country is displaced. It's in Jordan, it's in Lebanon, it's in Turkey, and in the desert. The threat is that those people in the desert and others could become the next acolytes of ISIL if we don't find a way to join together to go after ISIL.
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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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It's hard to say that something is legitimate when a whole portion of the country can't vote and doesn't vote.
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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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There is no bigger judgment for a president of the United States than how you take a nation to war.
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