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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.

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John F. Kerry

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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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

Medicare Is Paid For By The American Taxpayer. Medicare Belongs To You. Medicare Is For Seniors, Who Many Of Them Are On Fixed Income, To Lift Them Out Of Poverty.

Being Lectured By The President On Fiscal Responsibility Is A Little Bit Like Tony Soprano Talking To Me About Law And Order In This Country.

Remember The Hours After Sept. 11 When We Came Together As One...it Was The Worst Day We Have Ever Seen, But It Brought Out The Best In All Of Us.

Gender Based Violence Anywhere Is A Threat To Peace And Security Everywhere.

If You Want To Be A Jewish State And You Want To Remain A Democracy, You Have To Have A Two-state Solution.

What We Do Right Now, Today, Matters.

Great Physicians And Nurses, Skilled, Caring And Unparalleled In Their Training, Intervened In My Life And Probably Saved It. I Was Lucky But Other Americans Are Not. It Is Time To Speak Again And Stand Again For The Ideal That In The Richest Nation Ever On This Planet, It Is Wrong For 41 Million Americans, Most Of Them In Working Families, To Worry At Night And Wake Up In The Morning Without The Basic Protection Of Health Insurance.

America Deserves A Real Discussion About Real Policy.

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.

We Should Not Allow A Tiny Minority Of Shoddy Scientists And Science And Extreme Ideologues To Compete With Scientific Facts.

If The Tea Party Folks Would Go Out There And Get Angry Because They Think Their Taxes Are Too High, For God's Sake, A Lot Of Citizens Ought To Get Angry About The Fact That They're Being Killed And Our Planet's Being Injured By What's Happening On A Daily Basis By The Way We Provide Our Power And Our Fuel And The Old Practices That We Have. That's Something Worth Getting Angry About.

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

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.

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.

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

Osama Bin Laden

Not To Wax Nostalgic About The 1970s, But Back Then People Got Upset When They Saw Injustice. They Got Tired Of Seeing Our Air, Land And Water Polluted. They Were Shocked When The Cuyahoga River In Ohio Was Polluted So Badly It Caught Fire. And On One Great Day 20 Million Americans Marched All Across This Land. Politicians Had No Choice But To Take Notice.

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

This Fight Against Drilling In The Arctic Refuge Is A Fight About Our Principles. Its About Standing Up For Our Environment, Our Families And Our Future, And I Wont Give Up This Fight.

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.

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

I'm An Internationalist. I'd Like To See Our Troops Dispersed Through The World Only At The Directive Of The United Nations.

This Revolution Began With Young People In Syria Demonstrating Because They Wanted A Future. They Wanted Opportunity, Education, And So Forth. They Went Out And They Did It. Thugs Came Out And Beat Them Up. The Parents Got Angry That The Thugs Beat The Kids Up, And They Went Out And Demonstrated, And They Were Met With Bullets. They Were Killed. That's How This Began.

When The Nations Of The World Look Upon The United States, They See A Country Which Has Achieved What They Would All Like To Become One Day. Whether It Is In The Field Of Science, Art, Music, Agriculture, Politics, Economics Or War, The United States Is The Leader.

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

It Took President Obama To Make America Lead Like America Again.

President Obama

As The Saying Goes, I Have Big Heels To Fill.

The Best Way To Begin Genuine Bipartisanship To Make America Stronger Is To Work Together On The Real Crises Facing Our Country, Not To Manufacture An Artificial Crisis To Serve A Special Interest Agenda Out Of Touch With The Needs Of Americans.

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