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America has not led but fled on the issue of global warming.
John F. Kerry
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John F. Kerry
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: December 11
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If America is at war, I won't speak a word without measuring how it'll sound to the guys doing the fighting when they're listening to their radios in the desert.
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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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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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