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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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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 am not a spokesperson for the church and the church is not a spokesperson for the United States of America.
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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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We still have a lot of work to do to protect our own democracy.
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What we do right now, today, matters.
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There's an agreement that Syria should be a unified country, united that it needs to be secular that ISIL needs to be taken on and that there needs to be a managed transition, but there is a difference obviously in what that means and what that outcome may or may not be.
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I get always a little uptight when I hear politicians say how exceptional America is.
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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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If you don't believe ... Saddam Hussein is a threat with nuclear weapons, then you shouldn't vote for me.
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