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Remember The Hours After September 11th When We Came Together As One To Answer The Attack Against Our Homeland. We Drew Strength When Our Firefighters Ran Upstairs And Risked Their Lives So That Others Might Live; When Rescuers Rushed Into Smoke And Fire At The Pentagon; When The Men And Women Of Flight 93 Sacrificed Themselves To Save Our Nation's Capitol; When Flags Were Hanging From Front Porches All Across America, And Strangers Became Friends. It Was The Worst Day We Have Ever Seen, But It Brought Out The Best In All Of Us.

-John F. Kerry

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Remember The Hours After

John F. Kerry

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Remember The Hours After September 11th When We Came Together As One To Answer The Attack Against Our Homeland. We Drew Strength When Our Firefighters Ran Upstairs And Risked Their Lives So That Others Might Live; When Rescuers Rushed Into Smoke And Fire At The Pentagon; When The Men And Women Of Flight 93 Sacrificed Themselves To Save Our Nation's Capitol; When Flags Were Hanging From Front Porches All Across America, And Strangers Became Friends. It Was The Worst Day We Have Ever Seen, But It Brought Out The Best In All Of Us.

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Osama Bin Laden

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American Family

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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.

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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.

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

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

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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.

You'd Be Amazed At The Number Of People Who Want To Introduce Themselves To You In The Men's Room. It's The Most Bizarre Part Of This Entire Thing.

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.

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Mass Destruction

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

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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.”

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.

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 Is No Bigger Judgment For A President Of The United States Than How You Take A Nation To War.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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'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?

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

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 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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

I Know Something About Aircraft Carriers For Real.

Aircraft Carriers

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

My Definition Of Patriotism Is To Defend Your Country With The Truth, No Matter The Consequences.

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.

I Have A Plan To Protect The Environment So That We Leave This Place In Better Shape To Our Children Than We Were Handed It By Our Parents.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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