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As President, I will not be the last to know what is going on in my command.

John F. Kerry

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John F. Kerry
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: December 11
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Patriots don't go to Russia. They don't seek asylum in Cuba. They don't seek asylum in Venezuela. They fight their cause here. Edward Snowden is a coward. He is a traitor. And he has betrayed his country. And if he wants to come home tomorrow to face the music, he can do so.
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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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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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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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Democrats proposing success in Iraq by political solution.
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If you don't have two states, you have one state, already the non-Jewish population outnumbers the Jewish population in one state.
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You just don't invade another country on phony pretext in order to assert your interests!
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American soldiers [are] going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children, you know, women, breaking sort of the customs of the ñ of ñ the historical customs, religious customs.
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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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We spent a fair amount of time on Ukraine. And I think there's a path that we discussed that we will follow up on in order to try to resolve some of the outstanding issues in order to fully implement Minsk.
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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 just want to assure you that both President Bush and I have very firm alibis.
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If you don't believe ... Saddam Hussein is a threat with nuclear weapons, then you shouldn't vote for me.
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And it is time for those who talk about family values to start valuing families.
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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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There the Bush Administration has offered only a merry-go-round policy. They got up on their high horse, whooped and hollered, rode around in circles and ended right back where they'd started.
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What we Americans need to do is respect that incredible blessing that we have as a nation and make sure that we are leading in the best ways possible.
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That is what Americans do. We face a challenge - no matter how great - because we know that on the other side there is always hope.
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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'm going to be honest with you - I don't know a lot about Cuba's healthcare system. Is it a government-run system?
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