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You can't have responsibility and you can't have us living up to our ideals unless it's based on a fairly common acceptance of truth, of what is true - what is the truth here?

John F. Kerry

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John F. Kerry
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: December 11
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The world has to save Syria. I mean, this has dramatic implications for the entire region, globally.
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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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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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I think the United States is still the indispensable force for positive change and for rule of law and for order and structure.
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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 oceans themselves are threatened and life itself, therefore, and the planet is threatened because of it.
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In a few years, you should be able to plug your American-made plug-in hybrid into the outlet in your garage, so that you never use a drop of gas on your daily commute. This won't happen overnight, but I promise you, it is closer than you think.
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Those who doubted whether Iraq or the world would be better off without Saddam Hussein, and those who believe today that we are not safer with his capture, don't have the judgment to be President.
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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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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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Glossed over the disastrous war and its multibillion-dollar price tag and implied again that our presence in Iraq is somehow improving the situation in that chaotic and turbulent country. The Congress must stand up against Bush's plan to escalate the war.
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I am sympathetic to developing countries’ concerns: because of our emissions it’s their crops that will disappear because of our inaction, it’s their fields that turn to desert...
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It's the [George Bush] president's fiscal policies that have driven up the biggest deficits in American history. He's added more debt to the debt of the United States in four years than all the way from George Washington to Ronald Reagan put together.
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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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Our purpose now is to reclaim democracy itself. We are here to affirm that when Americans stand up and speak their minds and say America can do better, that is not a challenge to patriotism it is the heart and soul of patriotism.
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America that has done more to support Israel than any other country cannot be true to our own values if we allow a viable two-state solution to be destroyed before our own eyes.
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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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We cannot continue to see the Middle East in the context of 9/11. We must see it in the context of 2011.
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