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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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If Russia Is There

John F. Kerry

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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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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.

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.

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.

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

I Still Believe Americas Destiny Is To Become A Living Testament To What Free Human Beings Can Accomplish By Acting In Unity.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

And Now That The Greatest Generation Is Getting Older, I Think It Is The Responsibility Of All Americans To Make Sure We Do Our Part For America's Seniors. You Have Earned The Best Of America -- And We Need To Make Sure You Get The Protection And Health Care You Deserve.

Thank You Very Much For Contacting Me To Express Your Support For The Actions Of President Bush In Response To The Iraqi Invasion Of Kuwait. From The Outset Of The Invasion, I Have Strongly And Unequivocally Supported President Bush's Response To The Crisis And The Policy Goals He Has Established With Our Military Deployment In The Persian Gulf.

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.

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?

I Don't Think Losing 3 Million Jobs, Having Deficits As Far As The Eye Can Go, Having 2 Million People Lose Their Health Insurance, Turning Your Back On Kids In Schools And Not Funding No Child Left Behind Represents A Vision.

So We Can Do A Better Job Of Homeland Security. I Can Do A Better Job Of Waging A Smarter, More Effective War On Terror And Guarantee That We Will Go After The Terrorists. I Will Hunt Them Down, And We'll Kill Them, We'll Capture Them. We'll Do Whatever Is Necessary To Be Safe.

Guarantees That

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.

Folks, Sarah Palin Said She Could See Russia From Alaska. Mitt Romney Talks Like He's Only Seen Russia By Watching 'rocky Iv.'

As I Have Said For Two Years Now, When Osama Bin Laden And Al-qaeda Were Cornered In The Mountains Of Tora Bora, It Was Wrong To Outsource The Job Of Capturing Them To Afghan Warlords Who A Week Earlier Were Fighting Against Us.

Democrats Proposing Success In Iraq By Political Solution.

We Don't Differ With The Government On The Demands [on Iran], But We Totally Reject How Bibi Is Handling It. Bibi Sacrificed Good Relations With The U.s. To Keep The Status Quo On The Palestinians. He Poked The [obama] Administration In The Eye On Settlements Just To Appease Right-wingers

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

Israel Gets More Than Half Of All The Military Purchasing Assistance That America Gives To All The Nations In The World.

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.

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

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.

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

It’s Time We Framed Every Question - Every Issue -- Not In Terms Of What’s In It For ‘me,’ But What’s In It For All Of Us?

I Believe It Is Both Unwise And Even Wrong To Interfere In The Affairs Of Other Nations. Indeed, If We Are Honest, We Will See That This Is One Of The Reasons For 9-11.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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'm Not Going To Put My Energy Into Focusing On Things That Are Hypothetical That We Don't Know.

I Commanded A Naval Gunboat Patrolling The Mekong Delta. Then When I Came Home After Two Tours Of Duty, I Decided That The Same Sense Of Service Demanded Something More Of Me.

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.

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.

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

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

Intelligence Gathering

I'm Not Insensitive To The Jobs. I'm Desperately Concerned About Those Jobs. But You Don't Fix Them By Pandering To People And Telling Them You're Going To Shut The Door. You Have To Grow Jobs.

We Need A Leader Who Has A Sense Of Balance, An Understanding Of The Ebb And Flow Of History And A Sense Of Our Country's Unique Place In It. This Is A Foreign Policy Debate, And You Cannot Conduct Foreign Policy Without A Sense Of What We Are Fighting For. And Any President Who Can Reduce The Conduct Of This Country's Affairs To A Morning's Attack By A Bunch Of Demented Fascists Does Not, In My View, Understand What This Great Nation Is All About.

It Is The Duty Of Any President, In The Final Analysis, To Defend This Nation And Dispel The Security Threat. Saddam Hussein Has Brought Military Action Upon Himself By Refusing For 12 Years To Comply With The Mandates Of The United Nations. The Brave And Capable Men And Women Of Our Armed Forces And Those Who Are With Us Will Quickly, I Know, Remove Him Once And For All As A Threat To His Neighbors, To The World, And To His Own People, And I Support Their Doing So.

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