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John F. Kerry
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: December 11
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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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It's hard to believe that in the greatest democracy in the world, we need legislation to prevent the government from writing and paying for the news.
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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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Our military is overextended. Nine out of 10 active-duty Army divisions are either in Iraq, going to Iraq or have come back from Iraq. One way or the other, they're wrapped up in it.
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What we need to do is raise the minimum wage. We also need to hold onto equal pay. Women work for 76 cents on the dollar for the same work that men do. That's not right in America.
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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 deserve a president of the United States who will write laws for all Americans, not for campaign contributors. And I intend to be a president for all Americans who takes back the flag of our country because it doesn't belong to any party, doesn't belong to any president.
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I think it was the right decision to disarm Saddam Hussein. And when the president made the decision, I supported him, and I support the fact that we did disarm him.
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I am not a spokesperson for the church and the church is not a spokesperson for the United States of America.
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I would rather be the candidate of the NAACP than the NRA.
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What is happening is policy in Israel is being driven by the settlers who don't support a two-state solution, who want their settlements to prevent the possibility of two states. They openly say that.
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These guys [Republicans] are the most crooked, you know, lying group I've ever seen.
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Jesus did not help just the sick who could afford to pay for it.
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I supported Israel 100 percent as a senator for 28 years and I've supported it 100 percent as Secretary of State.
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Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, others, knew how to lead. They knew how to ask the American people for the right things.
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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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After Mitt Romney said it would be naive to go into Pakistan to pursue the terrorists, it took President Obama, against the advice of many, to give that order and finally rid this earth of Osama bin Laden. Ask Osama bin Laden is he is better off now than he was four years ago.
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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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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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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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