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America has not led but fled on the issue of global warming.

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John F. Kerry
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: December 11
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We are not interested in a proxy war. Our objective is to change Russia's behavior.
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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 think George Mitchell is a consummate professional. He is the ideal selection to handle the job of special envoy if you choose to have a special envoy.
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I'm not going to put my energy into focusing on things that are hypothetical that we don't know.
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Nobody's interests are served by what's happening in Syria today. It's a catastrophe. It's the worst human catastrophe since World War II. And, as I said just now, it represents a failure of the entire international community to come to grips with solving it.
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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 mean, all of these things that [Bashar Assad] has done, there's no way even if President Obama wanted to just play along that you could actually achieve peace, because there are 65 million Sunni in between Baghdad and the border of Turkey, Syria, and Iraq, who will never, ever again accept Assad as a member - as a legitimate leader.
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I actually did vote for the $87 billion, before I voted against it.
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President Clinton was often known as the first black president. I wouldn't be upset if I could earn the right to be the second.
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We should not allow a tiny minority of shoddy scientists and science and extreme ideologues to compete with scientific facts.
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I have a plan to protect the environment so that we leave this place in better shape to our children than we were handed it by our parents.
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I supported Israel 100 percent as a senator for 28 years and I've supported it 100 percent as Secretary of State.
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I voted to threaten the use of force to make Saddam Hussein comply with the resolutions of the United Nations.
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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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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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I look forward to standing up and holding George Bush accountable for pushing seniors off of Medicare into HMOs.
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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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America is the one that leads the effort to make sure the freedom of navigation in the South China Sea is protected.
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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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