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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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John F. Kerry

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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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Mass Destruction

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As President, I Will Not Be The Last To Know What Is Going On In My Command.

I Know Something About Killing. I Don't Like Killing. And I Don't Think A State Honors Life By Turning Around And Sanctioning Killing.

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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.

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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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Our Troops Are Terrorizing Women And Children In The Dark Of Night In Iraq.

There Are Issues Of War And Peace. And Then, There Are Issues Of Life And Death Like This One That Are No Less Morally Compelling Than War Itself.

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So The Threat Of Saddam Hussein With Weapons Of Mass Destruction Is Real.

Mass Destruction

America Has An Ability To Try To Make Some Things Happen That Other Countries Don't Necessarily Have.

America Is The Most Powerful Economy In The World. We're An $18-trillion-dollar Economy.

Remember The Hours After September 11th When We Came Together As One To Answer The Attack Against Our Homeland. We Drew Strength When Our Firefighters Ran Upstairs And Risked Their Lives So That Others Might Live; When Rescuers Rushed Into Smoke And Fire At The Pentagon; When The Men And Women Of Flight 93 Sacrificed Themselves To Save Our Nation's Capitol; When Flags Were Hanging From Front Porches All Across America, And Strangers Became Friends. It Was The Worst Day We Have Ever Seen, But It Brought Out The Best In All Of Us.

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Developing Countries

There Should Be A Transatlantic Renaissance Between The Us And Europe Based On Shared Prosperity, Security, And Values.

Without Question, We Need To Disarm Saddam Hussein. He Is A Brutal, Murderous Dictator, Leading An Oppressive Regime ... He Presents A Particularly Grievous Threat Because He Is So Consistently Prone To Miscalculation ... And Now He Is Miscalculating America's Response To His Continued Deceit And His Consistent Grasp For Weapons Of Mass Destruction ... So The Threat Of Saddam Hussein With Weapons Of Mass Destruction Is Real.

Mass Destruction

I Have Confidence In My Campaign. I Have Assembled A Great Team That Is Going To Beat George W. Bush, And Any Rumors To The Contrary Are Completely Erroneous.

If You Don't Have Two States, You Have One State, Already The Non-jewish Population Outnumbers The Jewish Population In One State.

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

In Order To Have The Best Intelligence In The World To Know Who The Terrorists Are And Where They Are And What They're Plotting, You've Got To Have The Best Cooperation You've Ever Had In The World.

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

I Figured Out Karl Rove's Political Strategy -- Make Gas So Expensive, No Democrats Can Afford To Go To The Polls.

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.

A Fundamental Premise Of Politics Is We Can Make This Work If People Just Never Figure It Out.

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.

People Talk About [bashar] Assad Running Syria. He Doesn't Control His Own Country. He's Down To About 20, 25 Percent Of The Country. What Is This Fiction That He Is Somehow The Only Person Who Can Save Syria? There's - With Assad There, There Is No Syria. So That's What The Iranians And The Russians Need To Really Begin To Focus In On.

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.

I'm Glad The President Finally Found An Economic Development Program. I'm Just Sad That It's Only In Baghdad.

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.

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.

You Know, Education, If You Make The Most Of It, You Study Hard, You Do Your Homework And You Make An Effort To Be Smart, You Can Do Well. If You Don’t, You Get Stuck In Iraq.

I Met With Many Of - A Number Of [syrian] Refugees In Berlin The Other Day, And I Was Struck By How Educated, Intelligent, And Patriotic They Are. They Want To Go Back. They Love Their Country. And There Are So Many Of Them Still In Jordan And In Refugee Camps In Lebanon And In Turkey, That If You Could Create The Climate Within Which They Could Begin To Come Back, I Believe There Is Such A History Of Secularism Within Syria, Even Tolerance Within Syria, That If We Can Deal With Isil, Yes. That's The Key. And With Isil There, Not A Chance.

I Came Into Public Life During The 1960s When A Whole Bunch Of Us Believed In Our Ability To Change The World. And We Did A Lot Of Things.

Ability To Change

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

[bashar] Assad Has Made A Series Of Choices Ever Since Then That Is Literally Destroying His Country.

What Remains Unchanged Is The Principle, Which Is That We Do Not Launch Wars Without Overwelming Reasons, And Overwhelming Alliances, And Without Overwhelming Force.

I Don't Believe We Need A Good Conservative Judge, And I Don't Believe We Need A Good Liberal Judge. I Subscribe To The Justice Potter Stewart Standard. He Was A Justice On The Supreme Court Of The United States. And He Said The Mark Of A Good Judge, Good Justice, Is That When You're Reading Their Decision, Their Opinion, You Can't Tell If It's Written By A Man Or Woman, A Liberal Or A Conservative, A Muslim, A Jew Or A Christian. You Just Know You're Reading A Good Judicial Decision.

What We Need To Do Is Raise The Minimum Wage. We Also Need To Hold Onto Equal Pay. Women Work For 76 Cents On The Dollar For The Same Work That Men Do. That's Not Right In America.

Jesus Did Not Help Just The Sick Who Could Afford To Pay For It.

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

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.

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.

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.

I Defended This Country As A Young Man, And I Will Defend It As President.

If The Choice Is One-state, Israel Can Either Be Jewish Or Democratic. It Cannot Be Both.

The American Spirit Wears No Political Label. In Service To Others And Yes, In Sacrifice For Our Country, There Are No Republicans; There Are No Democrats; There Are Only Americans.

We Are All Proud Of Is World War Ii Where We Went In, We Were Decisive, We Came To The Conclusion That Freedom Prevailed, And We Were Heroes.

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

I'm A Catholic, Raised A Catholic. I Was An Altar Boy. Religion Has Been A Huge Part Of My Life. It Helped Lead Me Through A War, Leads Me Today.

We Were Sent To Vietnam To Kill Communism. But We Found Instead That We Were Killing Women And Children.

When I Was In Vietnam I Learned A Lot About The Promises That Soldiers Make To Each Other. The Marines Have A Promise To Never Leave Behind Their Dead. In This Country, As Citizen Soldiers, We Need To Make The Commitment To Each Other That We Will Never Leave Our Veterans Behind.

Politics Has Always Been The Art Of The Possible. Today It's Too Often The Art Of The Probable - Tinkering Around The Edges Without Any Greater Vision, Without A Sense Of Optimism And Imagination.

I Will Not Stop In Our Efforts To Hunt Down And Kill The Terrorists.

We Achieved A Deal With The Russians That Didn't Wind Up In Two Days Of Strikes That Would Have Sent A, Quote, "message," But Would Not Have Removed The Weapons. We Struck A Deal To Get All Of The Declared Weapons Out Of Syria. Never Before In A Conflict Has That Ever Happened, That During The Conflict Weapons Of Mass Destruction Are Taken Out Of The Zone Of Conflict. And Thank God We Did That, Because If We Hadn't Done That, Today Isil Would Have Those Chemical Weapons In Large Parts Of The Country.

In The Middle Of The Cavernous Cargo Hold Was A Simple, Aluminum Coffin With A Small American Flag Draped Over It. We Were Bringing Another American Soldier, Just Killed, Home To His Family And Final Resting Place. The Starkness Of His Coffin In The Center Of The Hold, The Silence Except For The Din Of The Engines, Was A Real Time Cold Reminder Of The Consequences Of Decisions For Which We Senators Share Responsibility.

I Think The Question Of Abortion Is One That Should Be Left For The States To Decide.

The Threat Of Saddam Hussein With Weapons Of Mass Destruction Is Real, But As I Said, It Is Not New. It Has Been With Us Since The End Of That War, And Particularly In The Last 4 Years We Know After Operation Desert Fox Failed To Force Him To Reaccept Them, That He Has Continued To Build Those Weapons. He Has Had A Free Hand For 4 Years To Reconstitute These Weapons, Allowing The World, During The Interval, To Lose The Focus We Had On Weapons Of Mass Destruction And The Issue Of Proliferation.

Mass Destruction

Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Others, Knew How To Lead. They Knew How To Ask The American People For The Right Things.

Real Democrats Don't Abandon The Middle Class.

I Believe America's Best Days Are Ahead Of Us Because I Believe That The Future Belongs To Freedom, Not To Fear.

I Will Never Cede The Authority Of Our Country Or Our Security To Any Other Nation. I'll Never Give A Veto Over American Security To Any Other Entity - Not A Nation, Not A Country, Not An Institution.

I Had A Chance To Talk With President [vladimir] Putin And He Clearly Said To Me Very Directly, "i Will Think About That. I Will Think About This Challenge Of How We Win." Look, This Is Not Easy For Putin. Everybody Says, "oh, Putin's Made A Big Move." Well, Putin Is [in Syria] Now; And If He Wants To Fight Isil Alone, That's A Challenge, Folks.

In American Elections There Are No Losers, Because Whether Or Not Our Candidates Win Or Lose, The Next Morning We Wake Up As Americans.

We Owe Our Troops The Opportunity To Serve In The Best-planned, Best-equipped, And Best-led Military Force In The World, And We Owe Them The Peace Of Mind That Comes From Knowing That They And Their Families Will Be Taken Care Of If They Sacrifice Life, Limb Or The Ability To Sleep Without War's Nightmares. We Owe Them Not Just Thanks And Best Wishes, But Action, And Action In Our Nation's Capital.

I Supported Israel 100 Percent As A Senator For 28 Years And I've Supported It 100 Percent As Secretary Of State.

At Every Step Of The Way, George W. Bush Has Put The Narrow Interests Of The Few Ahead Of The Interests Of Most Americans.

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.

Even As A Supporter Of Roe V. Wade, I Am Compelled To Acknowledge That The Language Both Sides Use On This Subject Can Be Unfortunately Misleading And Unconstructive.... Everyone Is Worse Off For It.

What We Do Right Now, Today, Matters.

I Can Tell You, Massachusetts, Fastest Growing Sector Of Our Economy Is Clean Energy And Energy Efficiency Companies. And They're Growing Faster Than Any Other Sector.

But I Can Tell You What I Believe: When Tens Of Thousands Of Innocent Souls Have Perished In Darfur-when 11 Million Children Are Without Health Insurance-when Our Colossal Debt Subjects Our Economic Future To The Whims Of Asian Bankers-no One Can Tell Me That Faith Demands This Senate Spend Its Time Arguing Over A Handful Of Judges. No One With Those Priorities Can Use My Faith To Intimidate Me.

You Just Don't In The 21st Century Behave In 19th Century Fashion By Invading Another Country On Completely Trumped Up Pre-text.

You Might Not See Climate Change As An Immediate Threat To Your Job, Your Community, Or Your Families," Kerry Said. "but Let Me Tell You, It Is." He Continued, "climate Change Is Directly Related To The Potential Of Greater Conflict And Greater Instability. I'm Telling You That There Are People In Parts Of The World - In Africa Today, They Fight Each Other Over Water. They Kill Each Over It. And If Glaciers Are Melting And There's Less Water Available And More People, That Is A Challenge We Have To Face.

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.

There's An Agreement That Syria Should Be A Unified Country, United; That It Needs To Be Secular; That Isil Needs To Be Taken On; And That There Needs To Be A Managed Transition, But There Is A Difference Obviously In What That Means And What That Outcome May Or May Not Be.

Palestinians Need To Stop The Incitement. They Need To Stop That Kind Of Activity. But At The Same Time, There Is A Need To See The Broader Conflict Here And Understand That There Has To Be Some Kind Of Ultimately Negotiated Political Track That's Going To Resolve The Difference Between Palestinians And Israelis.

I Look Forward To Standing Up And Holding George Bush Accountable For Pushing Seniors Off Of Medicare Into Hmos.

America Deserves A Real Discussion About Real Policy.

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

I Think It's Time We Had A President Who Will Provide The Only Real Economic Security: Good Jobs. A President Who Will Provide Middle Class Payroll Tax Relief To Get Money In The Pockets Of Workers Who Will Spend It, Not More Tax Giveaways For Those At The Top To Stimulate The Economy In The Cayman Islands And Bermuda. A President Who Will Index The Minimum Wage To Inflation And Raise It From A 30 Year Low, Not Increase The Tax Burden On The Middle Class And Those Struggling To Join It.

The Fact Is That In Too Many Parts Of Our Country, We Still Have Discrimination. And Affirmative Action Is Not Just Something That Applies To People Of Color. Some People Have A Mistaken View Of It In America. It Also Is With Respect To Women, It's With Respect To Other Efforts To Try To Reach Out And Be Inclusive In Our Country.

America That Has Done More To Support Israel Than Any Other Country Cannot Be True To Our Own Values If We Allow A Viable Two-state Solution To Be Destroyed Before Our Own Eyes.

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