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Just The Fact That We Can't Pass Budgets In Our Congress, Just The Fact That We Are Gridlocked In Our Own Democracy, The Fact That Everybody Who Travels Can See That We're Not Investing In Our Airports, In Our Rail, In Our Infrastructure And So Forth, People Are Noticing A United States That Is Not Getting The Job Done In Some Ways.

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John F. Kerry

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Just The Fact That We Can't Pass Budgets In Our Congress, Just The Fact That We Are Gridlocked In Our Own Democracy, The Fact That Everybody Who Travels Can See That We're Not Investing In Our Airports, In Our Rail, In Our Infrastructure And So Forth, People Are Noticing A United States That Is Not Getting The Job Done In Some Ways.

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The Military's Job Is To Win The War. A President's Job Is To Win The Peace.

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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 Never Conduct A War Or Start A War Because We Want To; The United States Of America Should Only Go To War Because We Have To. And If You Live By That Guidance, You'll Never Have Veterans Throwing Away Their Medals Or Standing Up In Protest.

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

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That Is What Americans Do. We Face A Challenge - No Matter How Great - Because We Know That On The Other Side There Is Always Hope.

We Deserve A President Of The United States Who Will Write Laws For All Americans, Not For Campaign Contributors. And I Intend To Be A President For All Americans Who Takes Back The Flag Of Our Country Because It Doesn't Belong To Any Party, Doesn't Belong To Any President.

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.

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The Future Belongs To Freedom, Not To Fear.

I’m Sick And Tired Of These Despicable Republican Attacks That Always Seem To Come From Those Who Never Can Be Found To Serve In War, But Love To Attack Those Who Did. I’m Not Going To Be Lectured By A Stuffed Suit White House Mouthpiece Standing Behind A Podium...

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.

In Case After Case, President Bush's Actions Have Made American Women Less Safe And Less Secure -- On The Job And On The Streets. As President, I Will Put American Government And Our Legal System Back On The Side Of Women. I Will Stand Up For Their Security, Ensure Their Safety, Support Their Rights, And Guarantee Their Dignity. This Nation Can Do No Less.

Values Are Not Just Words, Values Are What We Live By. They're About The Causes That We Champion And The People We Fight For.

We Cannot Continue To See The Middle East In The Context Of 9/11. We Must See It In The Context Of 2011.

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

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.

The Ukrainian People Should Not Be Coerced. Make No Mistake: The Us Stands Together With The Ukrainians Aspiring For Democracy.

Unlike Washington, Which Is Stuck In Ideological Gridlock, Americans Feel The Impact Of Climate Change In Their Own Hometowns And They Know Something Must Be Done.

What We Do Right Now, Today, Matters.

If You Don't Believe ... Saddam Hussein Is A Threat With Nuclear Weapons, Then You Shouldn't Vote For Me.

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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.

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It's Hard To Believe That In The Greatest Democracy In The World, We Need Legislation To Prevent The Government From Writing And Paying For The News.

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I Think The World Is Safer Without Iran With A Nuclear Weapon. The World Has Got The Potential To Be Safer If We Fully Implement The Paris Agreement.

Nuclear Weapons

Regime Change Has Been An American Policy Under The Clinton Administration, And It Is The Current Policy. I Support The Policy. But Regime Change In And Of Itself Is Not Sufficient Justification For Going To War--particularly Unilaterally--unless Regime Change Is The Only Way To Disarm Iraq Of The Weapons Of Mass Destruction Pursuant To The United Nations Resolution.

Mass Destruction

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

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

I Actually Did Vote For The $87 Billion, Before I Voted Against It.

We Have Staring Us In The Face Here An Enormous Opportunity To Actually Find A Way Forward To Have Peace And Stability In Syria, To Reconstitute It. It'll Take Years To Do That. This Will Not Be An Easy Fight Even With Concerted Coordination With Respect To Isil. But It Is Far More Doable With That Kind Of Approach Than Otherwise.

I Think That Too Far, Too Much, To A Greater Degree Than Is Anywhere Near Appropriate, America And Our Politics Are Being Governed By More And More Powerful Interests, By Fewer And Fewer People In The Sense Of The Amount Of Money That Has Controlled Access And Other Kinds Of Things.

Democrats Proposing Success In Iraq By Political Solution.

There Are All Kinds Of Atrocities, And I Would Have To Say That, Yes, Yes, I Committed The Same Kind Of Atrocities As Thousands Of Other Soldiers Have Committed In That I Took Part In Shootings In Free Fire Zones. I Conducted Harassment And Interdiction Fire.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

This President Has Made, I Regret To Say, A Colossal Error Of Judgment. And Judgment Is What We Look For In The President Of The President Of The United States Of America.

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.

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.

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

I'm Against The Partial-birth Abortion, But You've Got To Have An Exception For The Life Of The Mother And The Health Of The Mother Under The Strictest Test Of Bodily Injury To The Mother.

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 Think George Mitchell Is A Consummate Professional. He Is The Ideal Selection To Handle The Job Of Special Envoy If You Choose To Have A Special Envoy.

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.

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.

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.

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

Too Many People In America Believe That If You Are Pro-choice That Means Pro-abortion. It Doesn't. I Don't Want Abortion. Abortion Should Be The Rarest Thing In The World. I Am Actually Personally Opposed To Abortion. But I Don't Believe That I Have A Right To Take What Is An Article Of Faith To Me And Legislate It To Other People. That's Not How It Works In America.

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.

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.

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.

These Guys [republicans] Are The Most Crooked, You Know, Lying Group I've Ever Seen.

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