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As a public person, I've always tried to reflect what is embodied in our defining ideals as a nation about equality and fairness and justice and so forth.

John F. Kerry

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John F. Kerry
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: December 11
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You cannot bring peace in Syria as long as [Bashar] Assad is, in fact, there.
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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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President Obama has made it his mission that we welcome our troops home with care, and concern, and the respect they deserve. That is how an exceptional nation says thank you to its most exceptional men and women.
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I saw how different life was on different sides of the same city. I saw the fear in the eyes of people who were not free. I saw the gratitude of people toward the United States for all that we had done. I felt goosebumps as I got off a military train and heard the Army band strike up 'Stars and Stripes Forever.'
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[Bashar] Assad has made a series of choices ever since then that is literally destroying his country.
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I know that our country is strongest when we lead the world, when we lead strong alliances. And that's the way Eisenhower and Reagan and Kennedy and others did it.
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Unlike George Bush and his friends at the big oil companies, I'm going to work for a real energy policy for this country that decreases America's dependence on foreign oil and helps lower the costs to American families.
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There is no bigger judgment for a president of the United States than how you take a nation to war.
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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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I believe America is safest and strongest when we are leading the world and we are leading strong alliances.
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Values spoken without actions taken are merely slogans.
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I know something about aircraft carriers for real.
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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 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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There the Bush Administration has offered only a merry-go-round policy. They got up on their high horse, whooped and hollered, rode around in circles and ended right back where they'd started.
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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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We were sent to Vietnam to kill Communism. But we found instead that we were killing women and children.
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You just don't invade another country on phony pretext in order to assert your interests!
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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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It's likely that people will say we're all interested in destroying - ISIL is a threat to everybody. There isn't one country in the region that doesn't despise what ISIL stands for and is doing and that doesn't want to eliminate them.
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