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There is no bigger judgment for a president of the United States than how you take a nation to war.

John F. Kerry

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John F. Kerry
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: December 11
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I'm going to be honest with you - I don't know a lot about Cuba's healthcare system. Is it a government-run system?
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I know something about aircraft carriers for real.
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Nobody's interests are served by what's happening in Syria today. It's a catastrophe. It's the worst human catastrophe since World War II. And, as I said just now, it represents a failure of the entire international community to come to grips with solving it.
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I think the United States is still the indispensable force for positive change and for rule of law and for order and structure.
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President Clinton was often known as the first black president. I wouldn't be upset if I could earn the right to be the second.
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When the nations of the world look upon the United States, they see a country which has achieved what they would all like to become one day. Whether it is in the field of science, art, music, agriculture, politics, economics or war, the United States is the leader.
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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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