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After Mitt Romney Said It Would Be Naive To Go Into Pakistan To Pursue The Terrorists, It Took President Obama, Against The Advice Of Many, To Give That Order And Finally Rid This Earth Of Osama Bin Laden. Ask Osama Bin Laden Is He Is Better Off Now Than He Was Four Years Ago.

-John F. Kerry

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After Mitt Romney Said It Would Be Naive To Go Into Pakistan To Pursue The Terrorists, It Took President Obama, Against The Advice Of Many, To Give That Order And Finally Rid This Earth Of Osama Bin Laden. Ask Osama Bin Laden Is He Is Better Off Now Than He Was Four Years Ago.

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Mass Destruction

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Mass Destruction

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You Can Lead A Horse To Water, But You Can't Make It Drink.

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I'm John Kerry, And I'm Reporting For Duty.

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The Hope Is There. The Sun Is Rising. Our Best Days Are Yet To Come.

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The Problem With The American Health-care System That It Is Not Working For The American Family.

American Family

My Dad Was A Member Of The Greatest Generation That Achieved Victory In World War Ii. This Was The Generation That Saved The World From Fascism, Came Home And Built The Great American Middle Class, Led The Way In The Civil Rights Movement, Protected Our Environment, And Created Great Programs Like Medicare.

I Know Something About Aircraft Carriers For Real.

Aircraft Carriers

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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.

I Believe America Is Safest And Strongest When We Are Leading The World And We Are Leading Strong Alliances.

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.

The Big Hang-up Was George Bush Wanted To Get Life Lines, You Know, So He Could Call Somebody.

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Republican Secretaries Of State From Kissinger To Baker, Powell To Rice, President Bush, 71 United States Senators All Supported President Obama's New Start Treaty, But Not Mitt Romney.

There Are All Kinds Of Atrocities, And I Would Have To Say That, Yes, Yes, I Committed The Same Kind Of Atrocities As Thousands Of Other Soldiers Have Committed In That I Took Part In Shootings In Free Fire Zones. I Conducted Harassment And Interdiction Fire.

Capturing Saddam Hussein And Ensuring That This Brutal Dictator Will Never Return To Power Is An Important Step Toward Stabilizing Iraq For The Iraqis. Let's Also Be Clear: Our Problems In Iraq Have Not Been Caused By One Man, And This Is A Moment When The Administration Can And Must Launch A Major Effort To Gain International Support And Win The Peace.

I Promise Just To Serve Two Terms. Republicans Do It Differently. They Just Have The Son Repeat The Father's Whole First Term.

Our Military Deserves Leadership That Matches Their Service And Patriotism. Getting Our Troops The Pay Raise They Deserve Is The Very Least We Can Do To Show How Much We Value Everything They Do For Us.

So My Judgment Is That Syria Will Move; Syria Will Change, As It Embraces A Legitimate Relationship With The United States And The West And Economic Opportunity That Comes With It And The Participation That Comes With It.

What We Need Now Is Not Just A Regime Change In Saddam Hussein And Iraq, But We Need A Regime Change In The United States.

The Agreement Is Fundamentally That We Want To Try To Resolve This. The Agreement Is That Isil Is A Threat To Everybody, And We Need To Come Together To Find A Way To Fight Isil. The Agreement Is That We Want To Save Syria, Keep It Unified, Keep It Secular. So Surely In Those Very Fundamental Principles On Which We Could Agree.

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We Have Staring Us In The Face Here An Enormous Opportunity To Actually Find A Way Forward To Have Peace And Stability In Syria, To Reconstitute It. It'll Take Years To Do That. This Will Not Be An Easy Fight Even With Concerted Coordination With Respect To Isil. But It Is Far More Doable With That Kind Of Approach Than Otherwise.

When We Walk Away From Global Warming, Kyoto, When We Are Irresponsibly Slow In Moving Toward Aids In Africa, When We Don't Advance And Live Up To Our Own Rhetoric And Standards, We Set A Terrible Message Of Duplicity And Hypocrisy.

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.

I Can't Take My Catholic Belief, My Article Of Faith, And Legislate It On A Protestant Or A Jew Or An Atheist. We Have Separation Of Church And State In The United States Of America.

Today, If You're An American Business, You Actually Get A Benefit For Going Overseas. You Get To Defer Your Taxes. So If You're Looking At A Competitive World, You Say To Yourself, "hey, I Do Better Overseas Than I Do Here In America".

I Don't Want To Claim That God Is On Our Side. As Abraham Lincoln Told Us, I Want To Pray Humbly That We Are On God's Side.

I Am A Veteran, I Fought In A War. I've Been A Prosecutor. I've Sent People To Jail For The Rest Of Their Life.

Nobody's Interests Are Served By What's Happening In Syria Today. It's A Catastrophe. It's The Worst Human Catastrophe Since World War Ii. And, As I Said Just Now, It Represents A Failure Of The Entire International Community To Come To Grips With Solving It.

America Has Not Led But Fled On The Issue Of Global Warming.

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.

War On Terror Is Far Less Of A Military Operation And Far More Of An Intelligence-gathering, Law-enforcement Operation.

Intelligence Gathering

In A Few Years, You Should Be Able To Plug Your American-made Plug-in Hybrid Into The Outlet In Your Garage, So That You Never Use A Drop Of Gas On Your Daily Commute. This Won't Happen Overnight, But I Promise You, It Is Closer Than You Think.

No One Is Going To Question My Commitment To The Defence Of Our Nation. I Don't Know What It Is These Republicans, Who Didn't Serve In Any War, Have Against Those Of Us Who Are Democrats Who Did.

We Need To Talk To All The Players In The Middle East, Not Because We Agree With Them, But Because They Play A Role.

It's Hard To Say That Something Is Legitimate When A Whole Portion Of The Country Can't Vote And Doesn't Vote.

Nafta Recognizes The Reality Of Today's Economy - Globalization And Technology. Our Future Is Not In Competing At The Low-level Wage Job; It Is In Creating High-wage, New Technology Jobs Based On Our Skills And Our Productivity.

We Need To Put Our Faith And Trust In The People On The Frontlines -- And Back It Up With Real Resources. We Need To Make Sure First Defenders Have The Gear And Support They Need, And The Benefits And Protections They've Earned. With New Technology And Ingenuity, By Doing More To Sustain Our First Defenders And Calling On Americans To Do More For Their Country, We Can Make Our Country Stronger, Safer, And More Secure.

Let Me Just Say You Could End This Violence Within A Very Short Period Of Time, Have A Complete Ceasefire - Which Iran Could Control, Which Russia Could Control, Which Syria Could Control, And Which We And Our Coalition Friends Could Control - If One Man Would Merely Make It Known To The World That He Doesn't Have To Be Part Of The Long-term Future; He'll Help Manage Syria Out Of This Mess And Then Go Off Into The Sunset, As Most People Do After A Period Of Public Life. If He Were To Do That, Then You Could Stop The Violence And Quickly Move To Management.

The Russians Need To Understand That You Cannot Have Peace [in Syria] Unless You Resolve The Question Of Sunni Buy-in.

America Is The One That Leads The Effort To Make Sure The Freedom Of Navigation In The South China Sea Is Protected.

For Those Of Us Who Are Fortunate To Share An Irish Ancestry, We Take Great Pride In The Contributions That Irish-americans.

We Must Uphold The Promise Of Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, And Clinton And Never Allow The President And His Republican Friends To Threaten Social Security By Putting It On The Wall Street Trading Block.

Real Democrats Don't Abandon The Middle Class.

If [bashar] Assad Himself Could Save This Whole Process By Saying, "i Will Engage In A Managed Transition Where We All Work Together To Stabilize The Government, Save The Institutions Of Government, And Turn On Isil And Preserve Syria." That Could Happen. It All Depends On One Man, And Russia And Iran Should Not Be So Stubborn Here That They Tie This Whole Thing Up Simply Because Of One Person.

Assassination, Kidnappings And Suicide Attacks Have Become Too Much The Standard Operating Procedure In The Islamic World. So Much So That The Name Of Islam Itself Has Been Diminished In The Eyes Of Many People. It Is The Responsibility Of All Of Us, And Particularly Those In The Islamic World Who Care About Their Religion, To Rescue It From Its Increased Association With Violence.

I Think That Too Far, Too Much, To A Greater Degree Than Is Anywhere Near Appropriate, America And Our Politics Are Being Governed By More And More Powerful Interests, By Fewer And Fewer People In The Sense Of The Amount Of Money That Has Controlled Access And Other Kinds Of Things.

Our Military Is Overextended. Nine Out Of 10 Active-duty Army Divisions Are Either In Iraq, Going To Iraq Or Have Come Back From Iraq. One Way Or The Other, They're Wrapped Up In It.

We Must Recognize That There Is No Indication That Saddam Hussein Has Any Intention Of Relenting. So We Have An Obligation Of Enormous Consequence, An Obligation To Guarantee That Saddam Hussein Cannot Ignore The United Nations. He Cannot Be Permitted To Go Unobserved And Unimpeded Toward His Horrific Objective Of Amassing A Stockpile Of Weapons Of Mass Destruction.

Mass Destruction

Guarantees That

I'm For Ethanol, And I Think It's A Very Important Partial Ingredient Of The Overall Mix Of Alternative And Renewable Fuels We Ought To Commit To.

The Ukrainian People Should Not Be Coerced. Make No Mistake: The Us Stands Together With The Ukrainians Aspiring For Democracy.

We Still Have A Lot Of Work To Do To Protect Our Own Democracy.

Unlike Washington, Which Is Stuck In Ideological Gridlock, Americans Feel The Impact Of Climate Change In Their Own Hometowns And They Know Something Must Be Done.

Those Who Deny The Science Or Choose Excuses Over Action Are Playing With Fire.

Those Localized Efforts Take A Long Time And They Don't Deal With The Larger Issue Of Isil And The Question Of What You're Going To Do To Really Have A Solution Here. We Have To Save Syria.

The Military's Job Is To Win The War. A President's Job Is To Win The Peace.

Ask Osama Bin Laden Is He Is Better Off Now Than He Was Four Years Ago.

Osama Bin Laden

I Don't Know What Compassionate Conservative Means. Does It Mean Cutting Kids Out Of After School Programs, Does It Mean Drilling In The Arctic Wildlife Refuge? Does It Mean Sending Kids To Iraq Without Body Armor That's State Of The Art?

Reduce Us Military Presence In Iraq; And Bring In Neighbors.

Our Cause In The War On Terror Isn't Helped When We Have Army Officers Like Lieutenant General William Boykin Speaking In Evangelical Churches And Claiming This As Some Sort Of Battle For The Christian Religion. That's Wrong. That's Un-american.

It's Very Hard To Get Other Countries To Give Up Their Weapons When You're Busy Developing A New One.

If America Can Go To The Moon, Then In The Decades To Come We Should Not Ever Have To Have Young Americans Sent To Any Part Of The World To Defend And Die For America`s Gluttony On Fossil Fuel.

Patriots Don't Go To Russia. They Don't Seek Asylum In Cuba. They Don't Seek Asylum In Venezuela. They Fight Their Cause Here. Edward Snowden Is A Coward. He Is A Traitor. And He Has Betrayed His Country. And If He Wants To Come Home Tomorrow To Face The Music, He Can Do So.

The Race For The White House Should Be About Leadership, And Leadership Requires That One Help Heal The Wounds Of Vietnam, Not Reopen Them.

As A Public Person, I've Always Tried To Reflect What Is Embodied In Our Defining Ideals As A Nation About Equality And Fairness And Justice And So Forth.

We're In A Battle For Our Lives For Things That Really Matter To Us. There's A Shell Game Going On Like I've Never Seen Before.

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