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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.

John F. Kerry

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John F. Kerry
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: December 11
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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 that all of the cyber attacks that are taking place, but particularly this - the Russian one, had a profound impact on the American system, on our political process, on our - it invaded the space of our election. The releasing on a regular basis of one party's stolen emails had an impact, and I think that other things also had an impact.
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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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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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Even as a supporter of Roe v. Wade, I am compelled to acknowledge that the language both sides use on this subject can be unfortunately misleading and unconstructive.... Everyone is worse off for it.
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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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America is the one that leads the effort to make sure the freedom of navigation in the South China Sea is protected.
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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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We still have a lot of work to do to protect our own democracy.
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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 do right now, today, matters.
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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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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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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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You just don't invade another country on phony pretext in order to assert your interests!
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And whatever our faith - whatever our faith, one belief should bind us all: The measure of our character is our willingness to give of ourselves for others and for our country.
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I had a chance to talk with President [Vladimir] Putin and he clearly said to me very directly, I will think about that. I will think about this challenge of how we win. Look, this is not easy for Putin. Everybody says, Oh, Putin's made a big move. Well, Putin is [in Syria] now and if he wants to fight ISIL alone, that's a challenge, folks
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I think there has been an exaggeration [of the terrorist threat].
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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 that our own crisis of democracy is in its own way affecting our ability to leverage in the same way that we used to in the world.
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