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I’ve Often Said That Global Climate Change Is An Issue Where No One Has The Luxury Of Being “half-pregnant.” You Either Are Or You Aren’t. And So It Is With Climate Change. You Either Understand And Accept The Science – Or You Don’t. Folks This Isn’t A Cafeteria Where You Can Pick And Choose And Accept The Science That Tells Us What Is Happening, But Then Reject The Science That Warns Us What Will Happen.

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John F. Kerry

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I’ve Often Said That Global Climate Change Is An Issue Where No One Has The Luxury Of Being “half-pregnant.” You Either Are Or You Aren’t. And So It Is With Climate Change. You Either Understand And Accept The Science – Or You Don’t. Folks This Isn’t A Cafeteria Where You Can Pick And Choose And Accept The Science That Tells Us What Is Happening, But Then Reject The Science That Warns Us What Will Happen.

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American Soldiers [are] Going Into The Homes Of Iraqis In The Dead Of Night, Terrorizing Kids And Children, You Know, Women, Breaking Sort Of The Customs Of The ñ Of ñ The Historical Customs, Religious Customs.

I'm Motivated By My Passion For Our Basic Values, Protecting Our Interests, And For Protecting The Future.

We Have To Create A Process Which Has Legitimacy For The People Of Syria. And We Have To Have A Process Where The Russians And The Iranians And The Neighbors - All Of Them, Saudis, Turks, Qataris, A Very Complicated Brew - That You Have To Bring Them Together And They Can Find Agreement. That's The Fundamental Premise Of The Geneva Communique That You Will Have, By Mutual Consent, A Process Of Transition.

I Mean, All Of These Things That [bashar Assad] Has Done, There's No Way Even If President Obama Wanted To Just Play Along That You Could Actually Achieve Peace, Because There Are 65 Million Sunni In Between Baghdad And The Border Of Turkey, Syria, And Iraq, Who Will Never, Ever Again Accept Assad As A Member - As A Legitimate Leader.

I Think There Has Been An Exaggeration [of The Terrorist Threat].

We Must Retool Our Nation To Prepare For The Challenge We Already Face To Maintain Our Position In The Global Economy. And This Much Is Certain: America Will Not Have National Security Without Economic Security.

My Hope Is The Trump Administration Will Approach Russia Strategically, With A Clear Purpose Of Trying To Find More Common Ground, But Without Giving Up On Fundamental Values And Principles That Are At The Core Of The United States' Foreign Policy.

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.

America Has Everything Most Countries Envy. A Constitution Which Is The Treasure Of Mankind, A Strong Military, Natural Resources Of Every Kind. Above All, As Tocqueville Said, A Good People, Which Is What Makes Us Great.

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

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.

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.

The Future Belongs To Freedom, Not To Fear.

Think About This: Terrorism, Epidemics, Poverty, The Proliferation Of Weapons Of Mass Destruction-all Challenges That Know No Borders-the Reality Is That Climate Change Ranks Right Up There With Every Single One Of Them.

I Want To Start By Saying Something Nice About President Bush. Of All The Presidents We've Had With The Last Name Of Bush, His Economic Plan Ranks In The Top Two.

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.

If We Can't Have A Serious Conversation Without Politicizing It On Cable Tv And Making It A Scoring Point For One Day, We're In Trouble.

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.

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

And Whatever Our Faith - Whatever Our Faith, One Belief Should Bind Us All: The Measure Of Our Character Is Our Willingness To Give Of Ourselves For Others And For Our Country.

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

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.

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.

I've Been Having Problems With The Right Wing Lately.

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

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.

When President Bush Sees America, He Sees Only A Military Superpower. I See A Moral And Idealistic Beacon. Mr. Bush May Talk About Democracy All He Wants, But It Is Not Democracy To Wilfully Disdain And Heap Scorn On World Opinion. We Do Not Command Moral Leadership By Starting Pre-emptive Wars.

The Fact Is That You Literally, By Definition, Cannot Have A Jewish State And A Democratic State And Have A Whole Bunch Of Palestinians In It Who Are Living Under Military Rule While The Rest Of The Country Is Living Under Civil Rule, And They Have Different Rights And Different - It's Just Not A Democracy.

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

How Do You Ask A Man To Be The Last Man To Die In Vietnam? How Do You Ask A Man To Be The Last Man To Die For A Mistake?

I Will Be Voting To Give The President Of The United States The Authority To Use Force-- If Necessary-- To Disarm Saddam Hussein Because I Believe That A Deadly Arsenal Of Weapons Of Mass Destruction In His Hands Is A Real And Grave Threat To Our Security.

There Is No Greater Breach Of The Public Trust Than Knowingly Misleading The Country Into War. In A Democracy, We Simply Cannot Tolerate The Abuse Of This Trust By The Government.

We Have An Electorate That Doesn't Always Pay That Much Attention To What's Going On So People Are Influenced By A Simple Slogan Rather Than The Facts Or Truth Or What's Happening.

We Do Not Need More Division. We Certainly Do Not Need Something As Complex And Emotional As Vietnam Reduced To Simple Campaign Rhetoric.

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

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.

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.

You'd Be Amazed At The Number Of People Who Want To Introduce Themselves To You In The Men's Room. It's The Most Bizarre Part Of This Entire Thing.

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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