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America is the most powerful economy in the world. We're an $18-trillion-dollar economy.

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John F. Kerry
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: December 11
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I'm motivated by my passion for our basic values, protecting our interests, and for protecting the future.
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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'm John Kerry, and I'm reporting for duty.
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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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I'm glad the President finally found an economic development program. I'm just sad that it's only in Baghdad.
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It's likely that people will say we're all interested in destroying - ISIL is a threat to everybody. There isn't one country in the region that doesn't despise what ISIL stands for and is doing and that doesn't want to eliminate them.
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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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Reduce US military presence in Iraq and bring in neighbors.
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It's one thing to be certain, but you can be certain and you can be wrong.
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America is the one that has led the effort to strengthen NATO and strengthen the front-line states against Russia's pressures.
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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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Three-quarters of [Bashar Assad] country is displaced. It's in Jordan, it's in Lebanon, it's in Turkey, and in the desert. The threat is that those people in the desert and others could become the next acolytes of ISIL if we don't find a way to join together to go after ISIL.
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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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Jesus did not help just the sick who could afford to pay for it.
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I would rather be the candidate of the NAACP than the NRA.
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We should focus more on the things we've accomplished, but I mean, obviously Syria disturbs me greatly and I'm not happy with where Syria is.
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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 should not allow a tiny minority of shoddy scientists and science and extreme ideologues to compete with scientific facts.
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What we do right now, today, matters.
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Gender based violence anywhere is a threat to peace and security everywhere.
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