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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.

-John F. Kerry

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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.

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The Future Belongs To Freedom, Not To Fear.

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.

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.

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.

Real Democrats Don't Abandon The Middle Class.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

That's What I Am Standing Up For - Israel's Future As A Jewish And Democratic State Living Side-by-side In Peace And Security With Its Neighbors.

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.

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If You Can Resolve This Transition Of [bashar] Assad, That Is Absolutely Possible, But You Have To Have A Clarity For Everybody About The Way Forward.

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.

If America Is At War, I Won't Speak A Word Without Measuring How It'll Sound To The Guys Doing The Fighting When They're Listening To Their Radios In The Desert.

America Must Always Be The World's Paramount Military Power. But We Can Magnify Our Power Through Alliances.

Sunni Are The Majority Of The [syria], 60 To 65 Percent. They've Been Ruled By [bashar] Assad, Who Represents A Minority Alawite Element, Which Is About 12, 13 Percent. And Because Of The Choices Assad Made, It's Very Difficult To See How You Resolve This Without Buy-in From The Sunni World.

We Were Sent To Vietnam To Kill Communism. But We Found Instead That We Were Killing Women And Children.

And It Is Time For Those Who Talk About Family Values To Start Valuing Families.

We Have To Recognize That There Is A Strong, Fresh Wind Blowing, Powered By These New Information Technologies. It Will Be Increasingly Difficult For Dictators To Impose Their Will Through Sheer Brutality.

I Accept That Friends Of Ours Have Decided That The President's Non-strike Has Somehow Impacted Perceptions Of Us. But I Believe They Are Dead Wrong And I Think The Critics Are Dead Wrong, And Here's Why. The President [barack Obama] Made His Decision To Strike. He Announced His Decision To Strike Publicly. And The Purpose Of The Strike Was To Get The Chemical Weapons Out Of Syria. That's The Purpose.

Bush-mccain Stategy In Iraq Is Policy To Stay, Not To Win.

I'm Going To Be A President Who Believes In Science.

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

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.

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

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.

I Am A Veteran, I Fought In A War. I've Been A Prosecutor. I've Sent People To Jail For The Rest Of Their Life.

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

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.

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

We Don't Need A President Who Just Says, "gentlemen, Start Your Engines." We Need A President Who Says, America, Let's Start Our Economy And Put People Back To Work.

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

What We Americans Need To Do Is Respect That Incredible Blessing That We Have As A Nation And Make Sure That We Are Leading In The Best Ways Possible.

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

I Can Tell You, Massachusetts, Fastest Growing Sector Of Our Economy Is Clean Energy And Energy Efficiency Companies. And They're Growing Faster Than Any Other Sector.

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

Palestinians Need To Stop The Incitement. They Need To Stop That Kind Of Activity. But At The Same Time, There Is A Need To See The Broader Conflict Here And Understand That There Has To Be Some Kind Of Ultimately Negotiated Political Track That's Going To Resolve The Difference Between Palestinians And Israelis.

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.

If We Don't Go Far Enough Fast Enough, The Damage We Inflict Could Take Centuries To Undo - If It Can Be Undone At All.

There The Bush Administration Has Offered Only A Merry-go-round Policy. They Got Up On Their High Horse, Whooped And Hollered, Rode Around In Circles And Ended Right Back Where They'd Started.

Confronting Climate Change Is, In The Long Run, One Of The Greatest Challenges That We Face, And You Can See This Duty Or Responsibility Laid Down In Scriptures, Clearly.

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.

You Can't Play Sports Without Losing Sometimes And, In Losing, You Learn Something About Grace And How To Act Under Pressure.

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