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There should be a Transatlantic renaissance between the US and Europe based on shared prosperity, security, and values.

John F. Kerry

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John F. Kerry
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: December 11
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I know that our country is strongest when we lead the world, when we lead strong alliances. And that's the way Eisenhower and Reagan and Kennedy and others did it.
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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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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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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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There are issues of war and peace. And then, there are issues of life and death like this one that are no less morally compelling than war itself.
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If the threat is jihadism - and it is - and the threat is the destruction of Syria so that all of these refugees are swamping into Europe and changing the whole character and politics of Europe, this is the time to unite to find a way out.
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I would rather be the candidate of the NAACP than the NRA.
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The oceans themselves are threatened and life itself, therefore, and the planet is threatened because of it.
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It's the [George Bush] president's fiscal policies that have driven up the biggest deficits in American history. He's added more debt to the debt of the United States in four years than all the way from George Washington to Ronald Reagan put together.
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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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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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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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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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I'm not insensitive to the jobs. I'm desperately concerned about those jobs. But you don't fix them by pandering to people and telling them you're going to shut the door. You have to grow jobs.
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A fundamental premise of politics is we can make this work if people just never figure it out.
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I want to start by saying something nice about President Bush. Of all the presidents we've had with the last name of Bush, his economic plan ranks in the top two.
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I mean, all of these things that [Bashar Assad] has done, there's no way even if President Obama wanted to just play along that you could actually achieve peace, because there are 65 million Sunni in between Baghdad and the border of Turkey, Syria, and Iraq, who will never, ever again accept Assad as a member - as a legitimate leader.
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America is the most powerful economy in the world. We're an $18-trillion-dollar economy.
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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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As a public person, I've always tried to reflect what is embodied in our defining ideals as a nation about equality and fairness and justice and so forth.
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