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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: 81
Born: 1943
Born: December 11
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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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When I was in Vietnam I learned a lot about the promises that soldiers make to each other. The Marines have a promise to never leave behind their dead. In this country, as citizen soldiers, we need to make the commitment to each other that we will never leave our veterans behind.
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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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So we can do a better job of homeland security. I can do a better job of waging a smarter, more effective war on terror and guarantee that we will go after the terrorists. I will hunt them down, and we'll kill them, we'll capture them. We'll do whatever is necessary to be safe.
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I think there has been an exaggeration [of the terrorist threat].
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America has everything most countries envy. A Constitution which is the treasure of mankind, a strong military, natural resources of every kind. Above all, as Tocqueville said, a good people, which is what makes us great.
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My friends, that's trickle-down economics, and I believe every worker in America is tired of being trickled on by George W. Bush
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America now stands as the world's foremost power. We should be proud: Not since the age of the Romans have one people achieved such preeminence. But we are not Romans we do not seek an empire. We are Americans, trustees of a vision and a heritage that commit us to the values of democracy and the universal cause of human rights.
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There are issues of war and peace. And then, there are issues of life and death like this one that are no less morally compelling than war itself.
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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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[Bashar] Assad has made a series of choices ever since then that is literally destroying his country.
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There is a much cheaper way, less complicated way to bring Iraq and Saddam Hussein to its knees: it is simply to send the Bush economic team over there and let them run the country.
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At every step of the way, George W. Bush has put the narrow interests of the few ahead of the interests of most Americans.
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After Mitt Romney said it would be naive to go into Pakistan to pursue the terrorists, it took President Obama, against the advice of many, to give that order and finally rid this earth of Osama bin Laden. Ask Osama bin Laden is he is better off now than he was four years ago.
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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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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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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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I'm not insensitive to the jobs. I'm desperately concerned about those jobs. But you don't fix them by pandering to people and telling them you're going to shut the door. You have to grow jobs.
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We are not interested in a proxy war. Our objective is to change Russia's behavior.
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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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