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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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John F. Kerry
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: December 11
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We will fight anyone who wishes to impose a totalitarian system upon a free society, and we will always prevail. But we will not do so with a fear-stricken administration which seeks to deprive us of freedoms in the name of 'defending' us from the terrorists, who also seek to deprive us of our freedoms.
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We will not be derailed by criminal anarchists who legitimately claim a religious cause.
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President Obama has made it his mission that we welcome our troops home with care, and concern, and the respect they deserve. That is how an exceptional nation says thank you to its most exceptional men and women.
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I will never conduct a war or start a war because we want to the United States of America should only go to war because we have to. And if you live by that guidance, you'll never have veterans throwing away their medals or standing up in protest.
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Politics has always been the art of the possible. Today it's too often the art of the probable - tinkering around the edges without any greater vision, without a sense of optimism and imagination.
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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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I think that for many of us, the years of the Civil Rights movements - Martin Luther King, Bobby Kennedy running for president in 1968 to end the war and so forth - these were defining moment in terms of trying to hold government accountable and have a level of responsibility and truth-telling.
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You cannot bring peace in Syria as long as [Bashar] Assad is, in fact, there.
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I actually did vote for the $87 billion, before I voted against 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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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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I think there has been an exaggeration [of the terrorist threat].
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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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Those who doubted whether Iraq or the world would be better off without Saddam Hussein, and those who believe today that we are not safer with his capture, don't have the judgment to be President.
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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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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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You don't value families if you force them to take up a collection to buy body armor for a son or daughter in the service.
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We cannot continue to see the Middle East in the context of 9/11. We must see it in the context of 2011.
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And it is time for those who talk about family values to start valuing families.
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