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We have an electorate that doesn't always pay that much attention to what's going on so people are influenced by a simple slogan rather than the facts or truth or what's happening.

John F. Kerry

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John F. Kerry
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: December 11
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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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Values spoken without actions taken are merely slogans.
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There's an agreement that Syria should be a unified country, united that it needs to be secular that ISIL needs to be taken on and that there needs to be a managed transition, but there is a difference obviously in what that means and what that outcome may or may not be.
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And if [Vladimir Putin] does fight ISIL alone, how does it work out for Russia to have sided with Assad, sided with Iran, sided with Hizballah, when they're trying to reach out to the rest of the Sunni world in the region? That's not a good equation for Russia.
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We are not interested in a proxy war. Our objective is to change Russia's behavior.
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So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real.
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I know something about killing. I don't like killing. And I don't think a state honors life by turning around and sanctioning killing.
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Bush-McCain stategy in Iraq is policy to stay, not to win.
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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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Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, others, knew how to lead. They knew how to ask the American people for the right things.
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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 think that our own crisis of democracy is in its own way affecting our ability to leverage in the same way that we used to in the world.
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There should be a Transatlantic renaissance between the US and Europe based on shared prosperity, security, and values.
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And whatever our faith - whatever our faith, one belief should bind us all: The measure of our character is our willingness to give of ourselves for others and for our country.
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I think there has been an exaggeration [of the terrorist threat].
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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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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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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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I believe America's best days are ahead of us because I believe that the future belongs to freedom, not to fear.
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You cannot bring peace in Syria as long as [Bashar] Assad is, in fact, there.
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