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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: 81
Born: 1943
Born: December 11
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I believe it is both unwise and even wrong to interfere in the affairs of other nations. Indeed, if we are honest, we will see that this is one of the reasons for 9-11.
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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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I don't want to claim that God is on our side. As Abraham Lincoln told us, I want to pray humbly that we are on God's side.
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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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I know that our country is strongest when we lead the world, when we lead strong alliances. And that's the way Eisenhower and Reagan and Kennedy and others did it.
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Values spoken without actions taken are merely slogans.
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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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Gender based violence anywhere is a threat to peace and security everywhere.
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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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In order to have the best intelligence in the world to know who the terrorists are and where they are and what they're plotting, you've got to have the best cooperation you've ever had in the world.
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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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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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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 will never conduct a war or start a war because we want to the United States of America should only go to war because we have to. And if you live by that guidance, you'll never have veterans throwing away their medals or standing up in protest.
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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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If America is at war, I won't speak a word without measuring how it'll sound to the guys doing the fighting when they're listening to their radios in the desert.
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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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