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You can't play sports without losing sometimes and, in losing, you learn something about grace and how to act under pressure.

John F. Kerry

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John F. Kerry
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: December 11
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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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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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It appears that with the deadline for exile come and gone, Saddam Hussein has chosen to make military force the ultimate weapons inspections enforcement mechanism. If so, the only exit strategy is victory, this is our common mission and the world's cause.
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There is some schedule showing what you (need) to do to get Iraqis standing up and defending themselves which is now suddenly beginning to happen, so there are some signs of progress.
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From the moment I take office, I will stand up to the special interests and stand with hardworking families so that we can give America back its future and its ideals.
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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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I saw how different life was on different sides of the same city. I saw the fear in the eyes of people who were not free. I saw the gratitude of people toward the United States for all that we had done. I felt goosebumps as I got off a military train and heard the Army band strike up 'Stars and Stripes Forever.'
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Climate change is real. The science is compelling. And the longer we wait, the harder the problem will be to solve.
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We will not be derailed by criminal anarchists who legitimately claim a religious cause.
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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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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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If you think I would have gone to war the way George Bush did, don't vote for me.
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I believe America is safest and strongest when we are leading the world and we are leading strong alliances.
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So we can do a better job of homeland security. I can do a better job of waging a smarter, more effective war on terror and guarantee that we will go after the terrorists. I will hunt them down, and we'll kill them, we'll capture them. We'll do whatever is necessary to be safe.
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America has an ability to try to make some things happen that other countries don't necessarily have.
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Thank you very much for contacting me to express your support for the actions of President Bush in response to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. From the outset of the invasion, I have strongly and unequivocally supported President Bush's response to the crisis and the policy goals he has established with our military deployment in the Persian Gulf.
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It's likely that people will say we're all interested in destroying - ISIL is a threat to everybody. There isn't one country in the region that doesn't despise what ISIL stands for and is doing and that doesn't want to eliminate them.
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At every step of the way, George W. Bush has put the narrow interests of the few ahead of the interests of most Americans.
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America is the one that has led the effort to strengthen NATO and strengthen the front-line states against Russia's pressures.
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I think the question of abortion is one that should be left for the states to decide.
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