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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.

John F. Kerry

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John F. Kerry
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: December 11
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Reduce US military presence in Iraq and bring in neighbors.
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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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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 not a spokesperson for the church and the church is not a spokesperson for the United States of America.
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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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The problems of health care can be solved if we stop giving tax cuts to those who have the most, and start making health care affordable for those working harder and harder for too little.
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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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We need to talk to all the players in the Middle East, not because we agree with them, but because they play a role.
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I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service.
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It's one thing to be certain, but you can be certain and you can be wrong.
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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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Even as a supporter of Roe v. Wade, I am compelled to acknowledge that the language both sides use on this subject can be unfortunately misleading and unconstructive.... Everyone is worse off for it.
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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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America now stands as the world's foremost power. We should be proud: Not since the age of the Romans have one people achieved such preeminence. But we are not Romans we do not seek an empire. We are Americans, trustees of a vision and a heritage that commit us to the values of democracy and the universal cause of human rights.
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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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We are not interested in a proxy war. Our objective is to change Russia's behavior.
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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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After Mitt Romney said it would be naive to go into Pakistan to pursue the terrorists, it took President Obama, against the advice of many, to give that order and finally rid this earth of Osama bin Laden. Ask Osama bin Laden is he is better off now than he was four years ago.
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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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I mean, all of these things that [Bashar Assad] has done, there's no way even if President Obama wanted to just play along that you could actually achieve peace, because there are 65 million Sunni in between Baghdad and the border of Turkey, Syria, and Iraq, who will never, ever again accept Assad as a member - as a legitimate leader.
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