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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.

John F. Kerry

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John F. Kerry
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: December 11
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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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[Bashar] Assad has made a series of choices ever since then that is literally destroying his country.
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Reduce US military presence in Iraq and bring in neighbors.
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I'm not insensitive to the jobs. I'm desperately concerned about those jobs. But you don't fix them by pandering to people and telling them you're going to shut the door. You have to grow jobs.
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If you think I would have gone to war the way George Bush did, don't vote for me.
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Gender based violence anywhere is a threat to peace and security everywhere.
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And it is time for those who talk about family values to start valuing families.
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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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The world has to save Syria. I mean, this has dramatic implications for the entire region, globally.
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Glossed over the disastrous war and its multibillion-dollar price tag and implied again that our presence in Iraq is somehow improving the situation in that chaotic and turbulent country. The Congress must stand up against Bush's plan to escalate the war.
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Sunni are the majority of the [Syria], 60 to 65 percent. They've been ruled by [Bashar] Assad, who represents a minority Alawite element, which is about 12, 13 percent. And because of the choices Assad made, it's very difficult to see how you resolve this without buy-in from the Sunni world.
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Jesus did not help just the sick who could afford to pay for 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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There is no bigger judgment for a president of the United States than how you take a nation to war.
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The military's job is to win the war. A president's job is to win the peace.
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Values spoken without actions taken are merely slogans.
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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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Just the fact that we can't pass budgets in our Congress, just the fact that we are gridlocked in our own democracy, the fact that everybody who travels can see that we're not investing in our airports, in our rail, in our infrastructure and so forth, people are noticing a United States that is not getting the job done in some ways.
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It's pretty standard fare in political discourse. You misconstrue what somebody said. You isolate a statement, you lend your interpretation to it and then feign moral outrage. And Democrats have been doing it for years.
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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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