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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.

-John F. Kerry

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Not To Wax Nostalgic

John F. Kerry

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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.

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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.”

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Being Lectured By The President On Fiscal Responsibility Is A Little Bit Like Tony Soprano Talking To Me About Law And Order In This Country.

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.

I Do Think That It's Really Important For Leaders Of Countries To Be Very Clear And Careful In The Statements They Make Because Their Words Are Weighed Extremely Carefully By Other Countries, And You Have To Create A Continuity Of Seriousness And Of Credibility In Order To Be Able To Be Taken Seriously And Get Things Done.

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

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

After Mitt Romney Said It Would Be Naive To Go Into Pakistan To Pursue The Terrorists, It Took President Obama, Against The Advice Of Many, To Give That Order And Finally Rid This Earth Of Osama Bin Laden. Ask Osama Bin Laden Is He Is Better Off Now Than He Was Four Years Ago.

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.

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.

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

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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.

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

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

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.

I'm Motivated By My Passion For Our Basic Values, Protecting Our Interests, And For Protecting The Future.

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

Under This [bush] Administration, America's Middle Class Has Been Abandoned -- Its Dreams Denied, Its Main Street Interests Ignored And Its Mainstream Values Scorned By A White House That Puts Privilege First.

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.

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

I Will Be Voting To Give The President Of The United States The Authority To Use Force-- If Necessary-- To Disarm Saddam Hussein Because I Believe That A Deadly Arsenal Of Weapons Of Mass Destruction In His Hands Is A Real And Grave Threat To Our Security.

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.

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.

Here I Am In The State Of New Mexico. George Bush Is Still In The State Of Denial. New Mexico Has Five Electoral Votes. The State Of Denial Has None. I Like My Chances.

We Do Not Need More Division. We Certainly Do Not Need Something As Complex And Emotional As Vietnam Reduced To Simple Campaign Rhetoric.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.'

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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.

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

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.

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.

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America Now Stands As The World's Foremost Power. We Should Be Proud: Not Since The Age Of The Romans Have One People Achieved Such Preeminence. But We Are Not Romans; We Do Not Seek An Empire. We Are Americans, Trustees Of A Vision And A Heritage That Commit Us To The Values Of Democracy And The Universal Cause Of Human Rights.

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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?

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.

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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?

And Here And Now We Must Insist Again That Fidelity, Honor, And Love Of Country Demand Untrammeled Debate And Open Dissent. At No Time Is That Truer Than In The Midst Of A War Rooted In Deceit And Justified By Continuing Deception.

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

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

The Future Belongs To Freedom, Not To Fear.

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.

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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.

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".

It's The [george Bush] President's Fiscal Policies That Have Driven Up The Biggest Deficits In American History. He's Added More Debt To The Debt Of The United States In Four Years Than All The Way From George Washington To Ronald Reagan Put Together.

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

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There Is Some Schedule Showing What You (need) To Do To Get Iraqis Standing Up And Defending Themselves Which Is Now Suddenly Beginning To Happen, So There Are Some Signs Of Progress.

Our Troops Are Terrorizing Women And Children In The Dark Of Night In Iraq.

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

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.

We Must Recognize That There Is No Indication That Saddam Hussein Has Any Intention Of Relenting. So We Have An Obligation Of Enormous Consequence, An Obligation To Guarantee That Saddam Hussein Cannot Ignore The United Nations. He Cannot Be Permitted To Go Unobserved And Unimpeded Toward His Horrific Objective Of Amassing A Stockpile Of Weapons Of Mass Destruction.

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Nafta Recognizes The Reality Of Today's Economy - Globalization And Technology. Our Future Is Not In Competing At The Low-level Wage Job; It Is In Creating High-wage, New Technology Jobs Based On Our Skills And Our Productivity.

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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 Spent A Fair Amount Of Time On Ukraine. And I Think There's A Path That We Discussed That We Will Follow Up On In Order To Try To Resolve Some Of The Outstanding Issues In Order To Fully Implement Minsk.

Our Purpose Now Is To Reclaim Democracy Itself. We Are Here To Affirm That When Americans Stand Up And Speak Their Minds And Say America Can Do Better, That Is Not A Challenge To Patriotism; It Is The Heart And Soul Of Patriotism.

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.

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

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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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?

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

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What Donald Trump Is Doing Is Serving The Polluters And Serving A Narrow Group Of Ideological Interests. That's Not Leadership. That's Abdication Of Responsibility, And This Step Does Not Make America First. It Makes America Last.

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.

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

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 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.

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'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?

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.

Think About This: Terrorism, Epidemics, Poverty, The Proliferation Of Weapons Of Mass Destruction-all Challenges That Know No Borders-the Reality Is That Climate Change Ranks Right Up There With Every Single One Of Them.

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.

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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.

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.

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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.

What We Do Right Now, Today, Matters.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Democrats Proposing Success In Iraq By Political Solution.

We Should Focus More On The Things We've Accomplished, But I Mean, Obviously Syria Disturbs Me Greatly And I'm Not Happy With Where Syria Is.

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.

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.

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 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.

I Believe That This President [george W. Bush], Regrettably, Rushed Us Into A War, Made Decisions About Foreign Policy, Pushed Alliances Away. And, As A Result, America Is Now Bearing This Extraordinary Burden Where We Are Not As Safe As We Ought To 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.

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

I Am Sympathetic To Developing Countries’ Concerns: Because Of Our Emissions It’s Their Crops That Will Disappear; Because Of Our Inaction, It’s Their Fields That Turn To Desert...

Developing Countries

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.

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.

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.

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'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.

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.

As President, I Will Not Be The Last To Know What Is Going On In My Command.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

In This Remarkable Time For The World, I Refuse To Believe It's Time To Stop Believing In The Possibilities Of Our Remarkable Country. I Refuse To Accept The Downsizing Of The American Dream. I Refuse To Bet Against American Entrepreneurial Spirit And American Ingenuity.the Competition's Tough, And It Requires Us To Be Tougher - Tough-minded, Never Hard Hearted.

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.

I Mean Does Israel Want A Third Intifada?

We Will Not Be Derailed By Criminal Anarchists Who Legitimately Claim A Religious Cause.

Reduce Us Military Presence In Iraq; And Bring In Neighbors.

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

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.

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.

Those Localized Efforts Take A Long Time And They Don't Deal With The Larger Issue Of Isil And The Question Of What You're Going To Do To Really Have A Solution Here. We Have To Save Syria.

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.

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

Values Spoken Without Actions Taken Are Merely Slogans.

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

I Know Something About Aircraft Carriers For Real.

Aircraft Carriers

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.

You Cannot Bring Peace In Syria As Long As [bashar] Assad Is, In Fact, There.

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.

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.

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 One Thing To Be Certain, But You Can Be Certain And You Can Be Wrong.

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.

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

Mass Destruction

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

I Personally Didn't See Personal Atrocities In The Sense I Saw Somebody Cut A Head Off Or Something Like That. However, I Did Take Part In Free-fire Zones, I Did Take Part In Harassment And Interdiction Fire, I Did Take Part In Search-and-destroy Missions.

It Appears That With The Deadline For Exile Come And Gone, Saddam Hussein Has Chosen To Make Military Force The Ultimate Weapons Inspections Enforcement Mechanism. If So, The Only Exit Strategy Is Victory, This Is Our Common Mission And The World's Cause.

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.

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

From The Moment I Take Office, I Will Stand Up To The Special Interests And Stand With Hardworking Families So That We Can Give America Back Its Future And Its Ideals.

Those Who Try To Stifle The Vibrancy Of Our Democracy And Shield Policies From Scrutiny Behind A False Cloak Of Patriotism Miss The Real Value Of What Our Troops Defend And How We Best Defend Our Troops. We Will Ask Questions And We Will Defend Our Democracy.

Jesus Did Not Help Just The Sick Who Could Afford To Pay For It.

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.

I'm Going To Be Honest With You - I Don't Know A Lot About Cuba's Healthcare System. Is It A Government-run System?

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.

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

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

What Is Happening Is Policy In Israel Is Being Driven By The Settlers Who Don't Support A Two-state Solution, Who Want Their Settlements To Prevent The Possibility Of Two States. They Openly Say That.

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.

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.

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