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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.

John F. Kerry

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John F. Kerry
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: December 11
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If Saddam Hussein is unwilling to bend to the international community's already existing order, then he will have invited enforcement, even if that enforcement is mostly at the hands of the United States, a right we retain even if the Security Council fails to act.
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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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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 pretty standard fare in political discourse. You misconstrue what somebody said. You isolate a statement, you lend your interpretation to it and then feign moral outrage. And Democrats have been doing it for years.
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We have an electorate that doesn't always pay that much attention to what's going on so people are influenced by a simple slogan rather than the facts or truth or what's happening.
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I voted to threaten the use of force to make Saddam Hussein comply with the resolutions of the United Nations.
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We deserve a president of the United States who will write laws for all Americans, not for campaign contributors. And I intend to be a president for all Americans who takes back the flag of our country because it doesn't belong to any party, doesn't belong to any president.
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I look forward to standing up and holding George Bush accountable for pushing seniors off of Medicare into HMOs.
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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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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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When the nations of the world look upon the United States, they see a country which has achieved what they would all like to become one day. Whether it is in the field of science, art, music, agriculture, politics, economics or war, the United States is the leader.
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I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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