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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.

John F. Kerry

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John F. Kerry
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: December 11
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We should focus more on the things we've accomplished, but I mean, obviously Syria disturbs me greatly and I'm not happy with where Syria is.
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There should be a Transatlantic renaissance between the US and Europe based on shared prosperity, security, and values.
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I actually did vote for the $87 billion, before I voted against it.
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We have an electorate that doesn't always pay that much attention to what's going on so people are influenced by a simple slogan rather than the facts or truth or what's happening.
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If Russia is there [in Syria] alone fighting them [ISIL], guess what? Russia becomes the target and Russia starts seeing - who knows - MANPADs will find their way in there, airplanes will fall out of the sky. They will become vilified. They'll become the new magnet, together with Assad, for the jihadis.
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We must retool our nation to prepare for the challenge we already face to maintain our position in the global economy. And this much is certain: America will not have national security without economic security.
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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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Sunni are the majority of the [Syria], 60 to 65 percent. They've been ruled by [Bashar] Assad, who represents a minority Alawite element, which is about 12, 13 percent. And because of the choices Assad made, it's very difficult to see how you resolve this without buy-in from the Sunni world.
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War on terror is far less of a military operation and far more of an intelligence-gathering, law-enforcement operation.
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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 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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Our troops are terrorizing women and children in the dark of night in Iraq.
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Just the fact that we can't pass budgets in our Congress, just the fact that we are gridlocked in our own democracy, the fact that everybody who travels can see that we're not investing in our airports, in our rail, in our infrastructure and so forth, people are noticing a United States that is not getting the job done in some ways.
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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.
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I think that all of the cyber attacks that are taking place, but particularly this - the Russian one, had a profound impact on the American system, on our political process, on our - it invaded the space of our election. The releasing on a regular basis of one party's stolen emails had an impact, and I think that other things also had an impact.
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You just don't invade another country on phony pretext in order to assert your interests!
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The military's job is to win the war. A president's job is to win the peace.
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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 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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