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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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I think that for many of us, the years of the Civil Rights movements - Martin Luther King, Bobby Kennedy running for president in 1968 to end the war and so forth - these were defining moment in terms of trying to hold government accountable and have a level of responsibility and truth-telling.
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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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President Clinton was often known as the first black president. I wouldn't be upset if I could earn the right to be the second.
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