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John F. Kerry
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: December 11
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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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Three-quarters of [Bashar Assad] country is displaced. It's in Jordan, it's in Lebanon, it's in Turkey, and in the desert. The threat is that those people in the desert and others could become the next acolytes of ISIL if we don't find a way to join together to go after ISIL.
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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 one thing to be certain, but you can be certain and you can be wrong.
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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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I think there has been an exaggeration [of the terrorist threat].
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Great challenges confront our great nation. We seek to meet them by rising to the task, not by defining our country down.
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I will never conduct a war or start a war because we want to the United States of America should only go to war because we have to. And if you live by that guidance, you'll never have veterans throwing away their medals or standing up in protest.
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Jesus did not help just the sick who could afford to pay for it.
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We have to recognize that there is a strong, fresh wind blowing, powered by these new information technologies. It will be increasingly difficult for dictators to impose their will through sheer brutality.
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We should not allow a tiny minority of shoddy scientists and science and extreme ideologues to compete with scientific facts.
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I do think that it's really important for leaders of countries to be very clear and careful in the statements they make because their words are weighed extremely carefully by other countries, and you have to create a continuity of seriousness and of credibility in order to be able to be taken seriously and get things done.
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America has not led but fled on the issue of global warming.
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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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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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America is the most powerful economy in the world. We're an $18-trillion-dollar economy.
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You cannot bring peace in Syria as long as [Bashar] Assad is, in fact, there.
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I'm proud of my medals. I always was proud of them.
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Bush-McCain stategy in Iraq is policy to stay, not to win.
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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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