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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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Unlike George Bush and his friends at the big oil companies, I'm going to work for a real energy policy for this country that decreases America's dependence on foreign oil and helps lower the costs to American families.
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I just want to assure you that both President Bush and I have very firm alibis.
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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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Here I am in the state of New Mexico. George Bush is still in the state of denial. New Mexico has five electoral votes. The state of denial has none. I like my chances.
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If Russia is there [in Syria] alone fighting them [ISIL], guess what? Russia becomes the target and Russia starts seeing - who knows - MANPADs will find their way in there, airplanes will fall out of the sky. They will become vilified. They'll become the new magnet, together with Assad, for the jihadis.
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That is what Americans do. We face a challenge - no matter how great - because we know that on the other side there is always hope.
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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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I'm proud of my medals. I always was proud of them.
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The problems of health care can be solved if we stop giving tax cuts to those who have the most, and start making health care affordable for those working harder and harder for too little.
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You just don't invade another country on phony pretext in order to assert your interests!
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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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And if [Vladimir Putin] does fight ISIL alone, how does it work out for Russia to have sided with Assad, sided with Iran, sided with Hizballah, when they're trying to reach out to the rest of the Sunni world in the region? That's not a good equation for Russia.
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At every step of the way, George W. Bush has put the narrow interests of the few ahead of the interests of most Americans.
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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 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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