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The military's job is to win the war. A president's job is to win the peace.

John F. Kerry

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John F. Kerry
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: December 11
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Our purpose now is to reclaim democracy itself. We are here to affirm that when Americans stand up and speak their minds and say America can do better, that is not a challenge to patriotism it is the heart and soul of patriotism.
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Climate change is real. The science is compelling. And the longer we wait, the harder the problem will be to solve.
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Remember the hours after Sept. 11 when we came together as one...It was the worst day we have ever seen, but it brought out the best in all of us.
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You just don't invade another country on phony pretext in order to assert your interests!
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America deserves a real discussion about real policy.
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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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We should focus more on the things we've accomplished, but I mean, obviously Syria disturbs me greatly and I'm not happy with where Syria is.
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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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That's what I am standing up for - Israel's future as a Jewish and democratic state living side-by-side in peace and security with its neighbors.
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If Saddam Hussein is unwilling to bend to the international community's already existing order, then he will have invited enforcement, even if that enforcement is mostly at the hands of the United States, a right we retain even if the Security Council fails to act.
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I think that all of the cyber attacks that are taking place, but particularly this - the Russian one, had a profound impact on the American system, on our political process, on our - it invaded the space of our election. The releasing on a regular basis of one party's stolen emails had an impact, and I think that other things also had an impact.
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My friends, that's trickle-down economics, and I believe every worker in America is tired of being trickled on by George W. Bush
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How do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam? How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?
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I'm John Kerry, and I'm reporting for duty.
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War on terror is far less of a military operation and far more of an intelligence-gathering, law-enforcement operation.
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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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We were sent to Vietnam to kill Communism. But we found instead that we were killing women and children.
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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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I know that our country is strongest when we lead the world, when we lead strong alliances. And that's the way Eisenhower and Reagan and Kennedy and others did it.
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You just don't in the 21st century behave in 19th century fashion by invading another country on completely trumped up pre-text.
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