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John F. Kerry
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: December 11
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Unlike George Bush and his friends at the big oil companies, I'm going to work for a real energy policy for this country that decreases America's dependence on foreign oil and helps lower the costs to American families.
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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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America deserves a real discussion about real policy.
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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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What is happening is policy in Israel is being driven by the settlers who don't support a two-state solution, who want their settlements to prevent the possibility of two states. They openly say that.
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We're in a battle for our lives for things that really matter to us. There's a shell game going on like I've never seen before.
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Violence has to end. And Israelis have a bright to defend themselves against any violence that is attacking innocent people with a knife in the old city in Jerusalem or elsewhere. No country should be under siege like that.
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I'm going to be honest with you - I don't know a lot about Cuba's healthcare system. Is it a government-run system?
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As President, I will not be the last to know what is going on in my command.
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I can tell you, Massachusetts, fastest growing sector of our economy is clean energy and energy efficiency companies. And they're growing faster than any other sector.
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I am sympathetic to developing countries’ concerns: because of our emissions it’s their crops that will disappear because of our inaction, it’s their fields that turn to desert...
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Reduce US military presence in Iraq and bring in neighbors.
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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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I think the question of abortion is one that should be left for the states to decide.
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Values spoken without actions taken are merely slogans.
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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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There is a much cheaper way, less complicated way to bring Iraq and Saddam Hussein to its knees: it is simply to send the Bush economic team over there and let them run the country.
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The agreement is fundamentally that we want to try to resolve this. The agreement is that ISIL is a threat to everybody, and we need to come together to find a way to fight ISIL. The agreement is that we want to save Syria, keep it unified, keep it secular. So surely in those very fundamental principles on which we could agree.
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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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The race for the White House should be about leadership, and leadership requires that one help heal the wounds of Vietnam, not reopen them.
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