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Great challenges confront our great nation. We seek to meet them by rising to the task, not by defining our country down.

John F. Kerry

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John F. Kerry
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: December 11
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I actually did vote for the $87 billion, before I voted against it.
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I know something about aircraft carriers for real.
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I do think that it's really important for leaders of countries to be very clear and careful in the statements they make because their words are weighed extremely carefully by other countries, and you have to create a continuity of seriousness and of credibility in order to be able to be taken seriously and get things done.
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Violence has to end. And Israelis have a bright to defend themselves against any violence that is attacking innocent people with a knife in the old city in Jerusalem or elsewhere. No country should be under siege like that.
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I refuse to stand by while our democracy is trampled by politicians more concerned about amassing power than helping the people who sent them to Washington in the first place.
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You don't value families if you force them to take up a collection to buy body armor for a son or daughter in the service.
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Gender based violence anywhere is a threat to peace and security everywhere.
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I think George Mitchell is a consummate professional. He is the ideal selection to handle the job of special envoy if you choose to have a special envoy.
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It's the [George Bush] president's fiscal policies that have driven up the biggest deficits in American history. He's added more debt to the debt of the United States in four years than all the way from George Washington to Ronald Reagan put together.
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You just don't in the 21st century behave in 19th century fashion by invading another country on completely trumped up pre-text.
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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.
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I've been having problems with the right wing lately.
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A fundamental premise of politics is we can make this work if people just never figure it out.
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Sunni are the majority of the [Syria], 60 to 65 percent. They've been ruled by [Bashar] Assad, who represents a minority Alawite element, which is about 12, 13 percent. And because of the choices Assad made, it's very difficult to see how you resolve this without buy-in from the Sunni world.
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I think the question of abortion is one that should be left for the states to decide.
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War on terror is far less of a military operation and far more of an intelligence-gathering, law-enforcement operation.
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We need to talk to all the players in the Middle East, not because we agree with them, but because they play a role.
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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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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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I believe America is safest and strongest when we are leading the world and we are leading strong alliances.
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