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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.

-John F. Kerry

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It Is The Duty

John F. Kerry

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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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American Family

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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 Think That All Of The Cyber Attacks That Are Taking Place, But Particularly This - The Russian One, Had A Profound Impact On The American System, On Our Political Process, On Our - It Invaded The Space Of Our Election. The Releasing On A Regular Basis Of One Party's Stolen Emails Had An Impact, And I Think That Other Things Also Had An Impact.

Martin Luther King Challenged The Conscience Of My Generation, And His Words And His Legacy Continue To Move Generations To Action Today At Home And Around The World. His Love And Faith Is Alive In Millions Of Americans Who Volunteer Each Day In Soup Kitchens Or In Schools, Or Who Refused To Ignore The Suffering Of Millions They'd Never Met In Far-away Places When A Tsunami Brought Unthinkable Destruction. His Vision And His Passion Is Alive In Churches And On Campuses When Millions Stand Up Against The Injustice Of Discrimination Anywhere, Or The Indifference That Leaves Too Many Behind.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Middle Class Americans Don't Ask For Special Favors, They Just Want Basic Fairness, And A President Who Fights For That Ideal.

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

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

We Are A Nation Of Laws And Liberties, Not Of A Knock In The Night. So It Is Time To End The Era Of John Ashcroft. That Starts With Replacing The Patriot Act With A New Law That Protects Our People And Our Liberties At The Same Time.

Glossed Over The Disastrous War And Its Multibillion-dollar Price Tag And Implied Again That Our Presence In Iraq Is Somehow Improving The Situation In That Chaotic And Turbulent Country. The Congress Must Stand Up Against Bush's Plan To Escalate The War.

I Think As We Celebrate The 70th Anniversary Of The Un, It's A Good Moment To Rekindle Our Efforts To Make Multilateralism Work Yet Again. And I'm Proud To Say That In The Iran Agreement I Think We Did Show That It Can Work.

I Think, All In All, The Obama Administration And What President Obama Has Focused On Has Lived Up To Our Need To Protect American Interests, To Live Our Values And Assert Our Values, And To Stand Up For Future Generations.

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 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'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.

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.

We Are Not Interested In A Proxy War. Our Objective Is To Change Russia's Behavior.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

The Reagan Administration Has No Rational Plan For Our Military. Instead, It Acts On Misinformed Assumptions About The Strength Of The Soviet Military And A Presumed 'window Of Vulnerability,' Which We Now Know Not To Exist.

If Saddam Hussein Is Unwilling To Bend To The International Community's Already Existing Order, Then He Will Have Invited Enforcement, Even If That Enforcement Is Mostly At The Hands Of The United States, A Right We Retain Even If The Security Council Fails To Act.

I've Met Foreign Leaders Who Can't Go Out And Say This Publicly, But Boy, They Look At You And Say, You've Got To Win This, You've Got To Beat This Guy, We Need A New Policy, Things Like That.

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.

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.

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