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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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John F. Kerry
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: December 11
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I'm glad the President finally found an economic development program. I'm just sad that it's only in Baghdad.
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Gender based violence anywhere is a threat to peace and security everywhere.
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I think it was the right decision to disarm Saddam Hussein. And when the president made the decision, I supported him, and I support the fact that we did disarm him.
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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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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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America is the one that has led the effort to strengthen NATO and strengthen the front-line states against Russia's pressures.
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I've been having problems with the right wing lately.
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A fundamental premise of politics is we can make this work if people just never figure it out.
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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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George Bush's vision does not live up to the America I enlisted in the Navy to defend, the America I have fought for in the Senate, and the America that I hope to lead as president.
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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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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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There should be a Transatlantic renaissance between the US and Europe based on shared prosperity, security, and values.
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I would rather be the candidate of the NAACP than the NRA.
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If Russia is there [in Syria] alone fighting them [ISIL], guess what? Russia becomes the target and Russia starts seeing - who knows - MANPADs will find their way in there, airplanes will fall out of the sky. They will become vilified. They'll become the new magnet, together with Assad, for the jihadis.
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Think about this: terrorism, epidemics, poverty, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction-all challenges that know no borders-the reality is that climate change ranks right up there with every single one of them.
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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.
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These guys [Republicans] are the most crooked, you know, lying group I've ever seen.
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Confronting climate change is, in the long run, one of the greatest challenges that we face, and you can see this duty or responsibility laid down in scriptures, clearly.
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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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