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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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When I was in Vietnam I learned a lot about the promises that soldiers make to each other. The Marines have a promise to never leave behind their dead. In this country, as citizen soldiers, we need to make the commitment to each other that we will never leave our veterans behind.
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I've been having problems with the right wing lately.
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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 think, all in all, the Obama administration and what President Obama has focused on has lived up to our need to protect American interests, to live our values and assert our values, and to stand up for future generations.
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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 look forward to standing up and holding George Bush accountable for pushing seniors off of Medicare into HMOs.
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Violence has to end. And Israelis have a bright to defend themselves against any violence that is attacking innocent people with a knife in the old city in Jerusalem or elsewhere. No country should be under siege like that.
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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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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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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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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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If Saddam Hussein is unwilling to bend to the international community's already existing order, then he will have invited enforcement, even if that enforcement is mostly at the hands of the United States, a right we retain even if the Security Council fails to act.
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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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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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I'm motivated by my passion for our basic values, protecting our interests, and for protecting the future.
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America that has done more to support Israel than any other country cannot be true to our own values if we allow a viable two-state solution to be destroyed before our own eyes.
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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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Democrats proposing success in Iraq by political solution.
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In order to have the best intelligence in the world to know who the terrorists are and where they are and what they're plotting, you've got to have the best cooperation you've ever had in the world.
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