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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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There's an agreement that Syria should be a unified country, united that it needs to be secular that ISIL needs to be taken on and that there needs to be a managed transition, but there is a difference obviously in what that means and what that outcome may or may not be.
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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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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 am not a spokesperson for the church and the church is not a spokesperson for the United States of America.
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Great challenges confront our great nation. We seek to meet them by rising to the task, not by defining our country down.
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We should not allow a tiny minority of shoddy scientists and science and extreme ideologues to compete with scientific facts.
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I think there has been an exaggeration [of the terrorist threat].
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I have a plan to protect the environment so that we leave this place in better shape to our children than we were handed it by our parents.
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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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I refuse to stand by while our democracy is trampled by politicians more concerned about amassing power than helping the people who sent them to Washington in the first place.
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What we need to do is raise the minimum wage. We also need to hold onto equal pay. Women work for 76 cents on the dollar for the same work that men do. That's not right in America.
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I know something about aircraft carriers for real.
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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 are not interested in a proxy war. Our objective is to change Russia's behavior.
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How do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam? How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?
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I don't want to claim that God is on our side. As Abraham Lincoln told us, I want to pray humbly that we are on God's side.
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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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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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What we do right now, today, matters.
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We're in a battle for our lives for things that really matter to us. There's a shell game going on like I've never seen before.
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