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What we Americans need to do is respect that incredible blessing that we have as a nation and make sure that we are leading in the best ways possible.

John F. Kerry

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John F. Kerry
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: December 11
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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 have a plan to protect the environment so that we leave this place in better shape to our children than we were handed it by our parents.
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As President, I will not be the last to know what is going on in my command.
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What we do right now, today, matters.
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That's what I am standing up for - Israel's future as a Jewish and democratic state living side-by-side in peace and security with its neighbors.
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I'm not going to put my energy into focusing on things that are hypothetical that we don't know.
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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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America has an ability to try to make some things happen that other countries don't necessarily have.
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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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We need to guarantee equal rights and civil rights and say that, here in America, workers have the right to organize - women have the right to choose - and justice belongs to everyone regardless of race or gender or sexual orientation.
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Those who doubted whether Iraq or the world would be better off without Saddam Hussein, and those who believe today that we are not safer with his capture, don't have the judgment to be President.
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