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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.

John F. Kerry

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John F. Kerry
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: December 11
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Violence has to end. And Israelis have a bright to defend themselves against any violence that is attacking innocent people with a knife in the old city in Jerusalem or elsewhere. No country should be under siege like that.
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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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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 believe it is both unwise and even wrong to interfere in the affairs of other nations. Indeed, if we are honest, we will see that this is one of the reasons for 9-11.
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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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We're in a battle for our lives for things that really matter to us. There's a shell game going on like I've never seen before.
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I don't know what compassionate conservative means. Does it mean cutting kids out of after school programs, Does it mean drilling in the arctic wildlife refuge? Does it mean sending kids to Iraq without body armor that's state of the art?
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I'm glad the President finally found an economic development program. I'm just sad that it's only in Baghdad.
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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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If America can go to the moon, then in the decades to come we should not ever have to have young Americans sent to any part of the world to defend and die for America`s gluttony on fossil fuel.
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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.
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Reduce US military presence in Iraq and bring in neighbors.
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And it is time for those who talk about family values to start valuing families.
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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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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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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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I would rather be the candidate of the NAACP than the NRA.
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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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There is a much cheaper way, less complicated way to bring Iraq and Saddam Hussein to its knees: it is simply to send the Bush economic team over there and let them run the country.
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I believe America's best days are ahead of us because I believe that the future belongs to freedom, not to fear.
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