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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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.

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

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

There Are Issues Of War And Peace. And Then, There Are Issues Of Life And Death Like This One That Are No Less Morally Compelling Than War Itself.

I Would Rather Be The Candidate Of The Naacp Than The Nra.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

We Are Being Americans When We Hold Our Government To Account. We Are Being False To Our Troops When We Send Them To A Needless War, Betraying Their Trust When We Shortchange Them On Protective Equipment, And Cheating Them When We Silently Cut Their Benefits.

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.

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

President Obama Has Made It His Mission That We Welcome Our Troops Home With Care, And Concern, And The Respect They Deserve. That Is How An Exceptional Nation Says "thank You" To Its Most Exceptional Men And Women.

We Need To Talk To All The Players In The Middle East, Not Because We Agree With Them, But Because They Play A Role.

I'm Proud Of My Medals. I Always Was Proud Of Them.

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.

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.

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

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.

America That Has Done More To Support Israel Than Any Other Country Cannot Be True To Our Own Values If We Allow A Viable Two-state Solution To Be Destroyed Before Our Own Eyes.

My Hope Is The Trump Administration Will Approach Russia Strategically, With A Clear Purpose Of Trying To Find More Common Ground, But Without Giving Up On Fundamental Values And Principles That Are At The Core Of The United States' Foreign Policy.

For Those Of Us Who Are Fortunate To Share An Irish Ancestry, We Take Great Pride In The Contributions That Irish-americans.

There Is A Much Cheaper Way, Less Complicated Way To Bring Iraq And Saddam Hussein To Its Knees: It Is Simply To Send The Bush Economic Team Over There And Let Them Run The Country.

America Is The Most Powerful Economy In The World. We're An $18-trillion-dollar Economy.

We Must Uphold The Promise Of Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, And Clinton And Never Allow The President And His Republican Friends To Threaten Social Security By Putting It On The Wall Street Trading Block.

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.

When President Bush Sees America, He Sees Only A Military Superpower. I See A Moral And Idealistic Beacon. Mr. Bush May Talk About Democracy All He Wants, But It Is Not Democracy To Wilfully Disdain And Heap Scorn On World Opinion. We Do Not Command Moral Leadership By Starting Pre-emptive Wars.

The American Spirit Wears No Political Label. In Service To Others And Yes, In Sacrifice For Our Country, There Are No Republicans; There Are No Democrats; There Are Only Americans.

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.

Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Others, Knew How To Lead. They Knew How To Ask The American People For The Right Things.

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.

Democrats Proposing Success In Iraq By Political Solution.

America Has Everything Most Countries Envy. A Constitution Which Is The Treasure Of Mankind, A Strong Military, Natural Resources Of Every Kind. Above All, As Tocqueville Said, A Good People, Which Is What Makes Us Great.

[bashar] Assad Himself Has Said On Several Occasions Recently That If The People Of Syria Don't Believe I Should Be There In The Future, Then I Would Step - I Would Leave. He Has Said It. He Has, On Occasion, Hinted That He Wants A Political Settlement Of One Kind Or Another. I Think It's Up To His Supporters, His Strongest Supporters, To Make It Clear To Him That If You're Going To Save Syria, Assad Has Made A Set Of Choices - Barrel Bombing Children, Gassing His People, Torturing His People, Engaging In Starvation As A Tactic Of War.

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.

We Are All Proud Of Is World War Ii Where We Went In, We Were Decisive, We Came To The Conclusion That Freedom Prevailed, And We Were Heroes.

I Think The United States Is Still The Indispensable Force For Positive Change And For Rule Of Law And For Order And Structure.

We Can't Change Minds Without Knowing What's In Them.

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.

What We Do Right Now, Today, Matters.

I Am Not A Spokesperson For The Church And The Church Is Not A Spokesperson For The United States Of America.

The Measurement In This Race Is Not Where You Come From, It Is "what Do You Fight For."

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

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

Great Challenges Confront Our Great Nation. We Seek To Meet Them By Rising To The Task, Not By Defining Our Country Down.

This Is Deeply Disturbing. Congress Provided Loans To Help Businesses Hurt By The Sept. 11 Attacks, Not To Be Used As An Accounting Gimmick To Cover Up This Administration's Failure To Provide For Small Businesses.

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.

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.

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.

Governor Dean Has No Policy On Iraq Evidently, Except 'no.' 'no' Is Not A Policy.

Strong Leadership Demands More Than The Willingness To Use Force. It Means Directing The Use Of The Right Tools At The Right Time For The Right Purpose And The Right Cause.

We Have An Electorate That Doesn't Always Pay That Much Attention To What's Going On So People Are Influenced By A Simple Slogan Rather Than The Facts Or Truth Or What's Happening.

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.

The Oceans Themselves Are Threatened And Life Itself, Therefore, And The Planet Is Threatened Because Of It.

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.

American Can Do Better, And Help Is On The Way.

Those Who Doubted Whether Iraq Or The World Would Be Better Off Without Saddam Hussein, And Those Who Believe Today That We Are Not Safer With His Capture, Don't Have The Judgment To Be President.

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

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.

No One Is Going To Question My Commitment To The Defence Of Our Nation. I Don't Know What It Is These Republicans, Who Didn't Serve In Any War, Have Against Those Of Us Who Are Democrats Who Did.

America Is The One That Leads The Effort To Make Sure The Freedom Of Navigation In The South China Sea Is Protected.

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

President Clinton Was Often Known As The First Black President. I Wouldn't Be Upset If I Could Earn The Right To Be The Second.

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

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

I Mean, All Of These Things That [bashar Assad] Has Done, There's No Way Even If President Obama Wanted To Just Play Along That You Could Actually Achieve Peace, Because There Are 65 Million Sunni In Between Baghdad And The Border Of Turkey, Syria, And Iraq, Who Will Never, Ever Again Accept Assad As A Member - As A Legitimate Leader.

We Do Have To Take The Long-term View. And Long Term, The Question To Ask Ourselves Is Whether America Should Attack Others Pre-emptively, Whether She Should Embroil Herself In Wars Far Away From Our Soil, And Try To Bring Democracy By Force To The Rest Of The World.

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.

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.

What We Have To Do Is Go On The Offensive. [the Science On Climate Change] Has Been Maligned And Misinterpreted, And We Need To Fight Back... [p]eople [need To] Stop Being Moved By These Talk Show [hosts] And Start Looking For The Facts Themselves.

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 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.

You Know, Education, If You Make The Most Of It, You Study Hard, You Do Your Homework And You Make An Effort To Be Smart, You Can Do Well. If You Don’t, You Get Stuck In Iraq.

I Promise Just To Serve Two Terms. Republicans Do It Differently. They Just Have The Son Repeat The Father's Whole First Term.

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

President Obama

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.

Violence Has To End. And Israelis Have A Bright To Defend Themselves Against Any Violence That Is Attacking Innocent People With A Knife In The Old City In Jerusalem Or Elsewhere. No Country Should Be Under Siege Like That.

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.

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.

You Just Don't Invade Another Country On Phony Pretext In Order To Assert Your Interests!

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.

The Fact Is That You Literally, By Definition, Cannot Have A Jewish State And A Democratic State And Have A Whole Bunch Of Palestinians In It Who Are Living Under Military Rule While The Rest Of The Country Is Living Under Civil Rule, And They Have Different Rights And Different - It's Just Not A Democracy.

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.

America Has An Ability To Try To Make Some Things Happen That Other Countries Don't Necessarily Have.

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

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.

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.

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

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

What We Need Now Is Not Just A Regime Change In Saddam Hussein And Iraq, But We Need A Regime Change In The United States.

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.

I'm Glad The President Finally Found An Economic Development Program. I'm Just Sad That It's Only In Baghdad.

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.

I Saw How Different Life Was On Different Sides Of The Same City. I Saw The Fear In The Eyes Of People Who Were Not Free. I Saw The Gratitude Of People Toward The United States For All That We Had Done. I Felt Goosebumps As I Got Off A Military Train And Heard The Army Band Strike Up 'stars And Stripes Forever.'

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

I Want To Fully Fund Education, No Child Left Behind, Special-needs Education. And That's How We're Going To Be More Competitive, By Making Sure Our Kids Are Graduating From School And College.

America Is The One That Has Led The Effort To Strengthen Nato And Strengthen The Front-line States Against Russia's Pressures.

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 Know Something About Aircraft Carriers For Real.

Aircraft Carriers

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.

I'm For Ethanol, And I Think It's A Very Important Partial Ingredient Of The Overall Mix Of Alternative And Renewable Fuels We Ought To Commit To.

It's Hard To Say That Something Is Legitimate When A Whole Portion Of The Country Can't Vote And Doesn't Vote.

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

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.

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

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.

I Will Not Stop In Our Efforts To Hunt Down And Kill The Terrorists.

If You Think I Would Have Gone To War The Way George Bush Did, Don't Vote For Me.

It's Pretty Standard Fare In Political Discourse. You Misconstrue What Somebody Said. You Isolate A Statement, You Lend Your Interpretation To It And Then Feign Moral Outrage. And Democrats Have Been Doing It For Years.

We Need A New Approach To National Security - A Bold, Progressive Internationalism That Stands In Stark Contrast To The Too Often Belligerent And Myopic Unilateralism Of The Bush Administration.

National Security

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

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

In The Middle Of The Cavernous Cargo Hold Was A Simple, Aluminum Coffin With A Small American Flag Draped Over It. We Were Bringing Another American Soldier, Just Killed, Home To His Family And Final Resting Place. The Starkness Of His Coffin In The Center Of The Hold, The Silence Except For The Din Of The Engines, Was A Real Time Cold Reminder Of The Consequences Of Decisions For Which We Senators Share Responsibility.

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.

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.

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.

Values Spoken Without Actions Taken Are Merely Slogans.

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.

The Consequences Of A Crime Should Not Be Out Of Proportion To The Crime Itself.

I Saw Courage Both In The Vietnam War And In The Struggle To Stop It. I Learned That Patriotism Includes Protest, Not Just Military Service.

You Can't Have Responsibility And You Can't Have Us Living Up To Our Ideals Unless It's Based On A Fairly Common Acceptance Of Truth, Of What Is True - What Is The Truth Here?

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.

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.

I Think It Was The Right Decision To Disarm Saddam Hussein. And When The President Made The Decision, I Supported Him, And I Support The Fact That We Did Disarm Him.

George Bush's Vision Does Not Live Up To The America I Enlisted In The Navy To Defend, The America I Have Fought For In The Senate, And The America That I Hope To Lead As President.

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

We've Been Waiting Since 1918 For The Boston Red Sox To Win The World Series, And ... If I Had A Choice Between The White House And The World Series This Year, I'm Going To Take The White House. How's That?

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.

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

Each And Every Child In This Country Is Valuable Because They Are Our Future As A Society. We Cannot Afford To Lose A Single Child To Ill-health, Under-education, Abuse, Addiction, Jail, Or Gun Violence. America's Highest Goal Should Be For Every Child To Grow Up To Be A Successful Young Adult -- Healthy, Educated, Free, Secure, And A Good Citizen.

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.

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

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

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

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

I'm Going To Make Available To Every American The Same Health Care Plan That Senators And Congressmen Give Themselves.

I Heard Katty Kay's Name And I Know Katty Kay Said We Didn't Have A Plan. Well, There Is A Plan, And The President [barack Obama] Is Moving Forward With Any Number Of Options And Ways To Augment Our Efforts On Isil.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Three-quarters Of [bashar Assad] Country Is Displaced. It's In Jordan, It's In Lebanon, It's In Turkey, And In The Desert. The Threat Is That Those People In The Desert And Others Could Become The Next Acolytes Of Isil If We Don't Find A Way To Join Together To Go After Isil.

Climate Change Is Real. The Science Is Compelling. And The Longer We Wait, The Harder The Problem Will Be To Solve.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

If America Can Go To The Moon, Then In The Decades To Come We Should Not Ever Have To Have Young Americans Sent To Any Part Of The World To Defend And Die For America`s Gluttony On Fossil Fuel.

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.

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.

So The Threat Of Saddam Hussein With Weapons Of Mass Destruction Is Real.

Mass Destruction

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.

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.

Mitt Romney Says He Believes In America And That He Will Restore American Exceptionalism. I Have News For Him, We Already Have An Exceptional American As President And We Believe In Barack Obama.

The Hope Is There. The Sun Is Rising. Our Best Days Are Yet To Come.

We Need To Put Our Faith And Trust In The People On The Frontlines -- And Back It Up With Real Resources. We Need To Make Sure First Defenders Have The Gear And Support They Need, And The Benefits And Protections They've Earned. With New Technology And Ingenuity, By Doing More To Sustain Our First Defenders And Calling On Americans To Do More For Their Country, We Can Make Our Country Stronger, Safer, And More Secure.

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.

We Will Fight Anyone Who Wishes To Impose A Totalitarian System Upon A Free Society, And We Will Always Prevail. But We Will Not Do So With A Fear-stricken Administration Which Seeks To Deprive Us Of Freedoms In The Name Of 'defending' Us From The Terrorists, Who Also Seek To Deprive Us Of Our Freedoms.

At Every Step Of The Way, George W. Bush Has Put The Narrow Interests Of The Few Ahead Of The Interests Of Most Americans.

Unlike George Bush And His Friends At The Big Oil Companies, I'm Going To Work For A Real Energy Policy For This Country That Decreases America's Dependence On Foreign Oil And Helps Lower The Costs To American Families.

As A Public Person, I've Always Tried To Reflect What Is Embodied In Our Defining Ideals As A Nation About Equality And Fairness And Justice And So Forth.

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.

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.

A Fundamental Premise Of Politics Is We Can Make This Work If People Just Never Figure It Out.

Patriots Don't Go To Russia. They Don't Seek Asylum In Cuba. They Don't Seek Asylum In Venezuela. They Fight Their Cause Here. Edward Snowden Is A Coward. He Is A Traitor. And He Has Betrayed His Country. And If He Wants To Come Home Tomorrow To Face The Music, He Can Do So.

The Problem With The American Health-care System That It Is Not Working For The American Family.

American Family

I Look Forward To Standing Up And Holding George Bush Accountable For Pushing Seniors Off Of Medicare Into Hmos.

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

The Race For The White House Should Be About Leadership, And Leadership Requires That One Help Heal The Wounds Of Vietnam, Not Reopen Them.

I Know There Are A Lot Of Musicians And A Lot Of Artists, And There Are A Lot Of Writers And Other People Who Inspire Young People, But I'd Like To See Somebody In Political Life Be Able To Connect And Make These Choices That We Need To Make In Washington Real In Terms Of People's Lives.

Where Are They Now That We, The Men Whom They Sent Off To War, Have Returned? These Are Commanders Who Have Deserted Their Troops, And There Is No More Serious Crime In The Law Of War. The Army Says They Never Leave Their Wounded. The Marines Say They Never Leave Even Their Dead. These Men Have Left All The Casualties And Retreated Behind A Pious Shield Of Public Rectitude. They Have Left The Real Stuff Of Their Reputation Bleaching Behind Them In The Sun In This Country.

The Future Belongs To Freedom, Not To Fear.

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.

An Old American Patriot Described Today’s Situation Very Well. As America Fought For Its Independence, Benjamin Franklin Said, “we Must All Hang Together, Or Assuredly, We Shall All Hang Separately.”

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Today, If You're An American Business, You Actually Get A Benefit For Going Overseas. You Get To Defer Your Taxes. So If You're Looking At A Competitive World, You Say To Yourself, "hey, I Do Better Overseas Than I Do Here In America".

The Threat Of Saddam Hussein With Weapons Of Mass Destruction Is Real, But As I Said, It Is Not New. It Has Been With Us Since The End Of That War, And Particularly In The Last 4 Years We Know After Operation Desert Fox Failed To Force Him To Reaccept Them, That He Has Continued To Build Those Weapons. He Has Had A Free Hand For 4 Years To Reconstitute These Weapons, Allowing The World, During The Interval, To Lose The Focus We Had On Weapons Of Mass Destruction And The Issue Of Proliferation.

Mass Destruction

The World Has To Save Syria. I Mean, This Has Dramatic Implications For The Entire Region, Globally.

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.

The Russians Need To Understand That You Cannot Have Peace [in Syria] Unless You Resolve The Question Of Sunni Buy-in.

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

I'm Fascinated By Rap And By Hip-hop. I Think There's A Lot Of Poetry In It. There's A Lot Of Anger, A Lot Of Social Energy In It. And I Think You'd Better Listen To It Pretty Carefully, 'cause It's Important.

I Can't Take My Catholic Belief, My Article Of Faith, And Legislate It On A Protestant Or A Jew Or An Atheist. We Have Separation Of Church And State In The United States Of America.

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?

Terrorist Organizations With Specific Political Agendas May Be Encouraged And Emboldened By Yasser Arafat's Transformation From Outlaw To Statesman.

I Think That Our Own Crisis Of Democracy Is In Its Own Way Affecting Our Ability To Leverage In The Same Way That We Used To In The World.

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