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No one is going to question my commitment to the defence of our nation. I don't know what it is these Republicans, who didn't serve in any war, have against those of us who are Democrats who did.

John F. Kerry

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John F. Kerry
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: December 11
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We are not interested in a proxy war. Our objective is to change Russia's behavior.
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The agreement is fundamentally that we want to try to resolve this. The agreement is that ISIL is a threat to everybody, and we need to come together to find a way to fight ISIL. The agreement is that we want to save Syria, keep it unified, keep it secular. So surely in those very fundamental principles on which we could agree.
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I think the world is safer without Iran with a nuclear weapon. The world has got the potential to be safer if we fully implement the Paris agreement.
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I just want to assure you that both President Bush and I have very firm alibis.
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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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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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Remember the hours after Sept. 11 when we came together as one...It was the worst day we have ever seen, but it brought out the best in all of us.
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We will not be derailed by criminal anarchists who legitimately claim a religious cause.
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We still have a lot of work to do to protect our own democracy.
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And whatever our faith - whatever our faith, one belief should bind us all: The measure of our character is our willingness to give of ourselves for others and for our country.
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I know something about killing. I don't like killing. And I don't think a state honors life by turning around and sanctioning killing.
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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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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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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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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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We were sent to Vietnam to kill Communism. But we found instead that we were killing women and children.
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The race for the White House should be about leadership, and leadership requires that one help heal the wounds of Vietnam, not reopen them.
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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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We will fight anyone who wishes to impose a totalitarian system upon a free society, and we will always prevail. But we will not do so with a fear-stricken administration which seeks to deprive us of freedoms in the name of 'defending' us from the terrorists, who also seek to deprive us of our freedoms.
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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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