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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.

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John F. Kerry
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: December 11
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Our troops are terrorizing women and children in the dark of night in Iraq.
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There's an agreement that Syria should be a unified country, united that it needs to be secular that ISIL needs to be taken on and that there needs to be a managed transition, but there is a difference obviously in what that means and what that outcome may or may not be.
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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 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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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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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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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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It's hard to believe that in the greatest democracy in the world, we need legislation to prevent the government from writing and paying for the news.
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I think that our own crisis of democracy is in its own way affecting our ability to leverage in the same way that we used to in the world.
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Values spoken without actions taken are merely slogans.
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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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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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Patriots don't go to Russia. They don't seek asylum in Cuba. They don't seek asylum in Venezuela. They fight their cause here. Edward Snowden is a coward. He is a traitor. And he has betrayed his country. And if he wants to come home tomorrow to face the music, he can do so.
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You just don't in the 21st century behave in 19th century fashion by invading another country on completely trumped up pre-text.
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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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Our military is overextended. Nine out of 10 active-duty Army divisions are either in Iraq, going to Iraq or have come back from Iraq. One way or the other, they're wrapped up in it.
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I'm motivated by my passion for our basic values, protecting our interests, and for protecting the future.
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Terrorist organizations with specific political agendas may be encouraged and emboldened by Yasser Arafat's transformation from outlaw to statesman.
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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 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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