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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.

-John F. Kerry

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John F. Kerry

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The Fact Is That In Too Many Parts Of Our Country, We Still Have Discrimination. And Affirmative Action Is Not Just Something That Applies To People Of Color. Some People Have A Mistaken View Of It In America. It Also Is With Respect To Women, It's With Respect To Other Efforts To Try To Reach Out And Be Inclusive In Our Country.

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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.

We Cannot Fight Communism All Over The World, And I Think We Should Have Learned That Lesson By Now.

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.

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.

Iraq May Not Be The War On Terror Itself, But It Is Critical To The Outcome Of The War On Terror, And Therefore Any Advance In Iraq Is An Advance Forward In That.

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

Thank You Very Much For Contacting Me To Express Your Support For The Actions Of President Bush In Response To The Iraqi Invasion Of Kuwait. From The Outset Of The Invasion, I Have Strongly And Unequivocally Supported President Bush's Response To The Crisis And The Policy Goals He Has Established With Our Military Deployment In The Persian Gulf.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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Developing Countries

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If The Choice Is One-state, Israel Can Either Be Jewish Or Democratic. It Cannot Be Both.

I Want To Start By Saying Something Nice About President Bush. Of All The Presidents We've Had With The Last Name Of Bush, His Economic Plan Ranks In The Top Two.

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.

The Future Belongs To Freedom, Not To Fear.

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.

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.

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 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

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

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.

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.

American Soldiers [are] Going Into The Homes Of Iraqis In The Dead Of Night, Terrorizing Kids And Children, You Know, Women, Breaking Sort Of The Customs Of The ñ Of ñ The Historical Customs, Religious Customs.

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

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.

How Do You Ask A Man To Be The Last Man To Die In Vietnam? How Do You Ask A Man To Be The Last Man To Die For A Mistake?

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

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.

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

Mass Destruction

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

In American Elections There Are No Losers, Because Whether Or Not Our Candidates Win Or Lose, The Next Morning We Wake Up As Americans.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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President Obama

I Had A Chance To Talk With President [vladimir] Putin And He Clearly Said To Me Very Directly, "i Will Think About That. I Will Think About This Challenge Of How We Win." Look, This Is Not Easy For Putin. Everybody Says, "oh, Putin's Made A Big Move." Well, Putin Is [in Syria] Now; And If He Wants To Fight Isil Alone, That's A Challenge, Folks.

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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.

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?

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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Mass Destruction

We Have To Create A Process Which Has Legitimacy For The People Of Syria. And We Have To Have A Process Where The Russians And The Iranians And The Neighbors - All Of Them, Saudis, Turks, Qataris, A Very Complicated Brew - That You Have To Bring Them Together And They Can Find Agreement. That's The Fundamental Premise Of The Geneva Communique That You Will Have, By Mutual Consent, A Process Of Transition.

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.

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

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Mass Destruction

Guarantees That

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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.

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.

My Friends, That's Trickle-down Economics, And I Believe Every Worker In America Is Tired Of Being Trickled On By George W. Bush

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

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.

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.

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.

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.”

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

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.

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.

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

I Voted To Threaten The Use Of Force To Make Saddam Hussein Comply With The Resolutions Of The United Nations.

The Big Hang-up Was George Bush Wanted To Get Life Lines, You Know, So He Could Call Somebody.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

George Bush Sold Us On Going To War With Iraq Based On The Threat Of Weapons Of Mass Destruction. But We Still Haven't Found Them.

Mass Destruction

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.

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

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

We Don't Differ With The Government On The Demands [on Iran], But We Totally Reject How Bibi Is Handling It. Bibi Sacrificed Good Relations With The U.s. To Keep The Status Quo On The Palestinians. He Poked The [obama] Administration In The Eye On Settlements Just To Appease Right-wingers

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

American Family

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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'm An Internationalist. I'd Like To See Our Troops Dispersed Through The World Only At The Directive Of The United Nations.

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

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.

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

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.

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?

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

We Do Not Need To Divide America Over Who Served And How. I Have Personally Always Believed That Many Served In Many Different Ways.

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

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 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.

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".

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

I Think It's Time We Had A President Who Will Provide The Only Real Economic Security: Good Jobs. A President Who Will Provide Middle Class Payroll Tax Relief To Get Money In The Pockets Of Workers Who Will Spend It, Not More Tax Giveaways For Those At The Top To Stimulate The Economy In The Cayman Islands And Bermuda. A President Who Will Index The Minimum Wage To Inflation And Raise It From A 30 Year Low, Not Increase The Tax Burden On The Middle Class And Those Struggling To Join It.

I Know Something About Aircraft Carriers For Real.

Aircraft Carriers

I Get Always A Little Uptight When I Hear Politicians Say How Exceptional America Is.

If The Threat Is Jihadism - And It Is - And The Threat Is The Destruction Of Syria So That All Of These Refugees Are Swamping Into Europe And Changing The Whole Character And Politics Of Europe, This Is The Time To Unite To Find A Way Out.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Nobody's Interests Are Served By What's Happening In Syria Today. It's A Catastrophe. It's The Worst Human Catastrophe Since World War Ii. And, As I Said Just Now, It Represents A Failure Of The Entire International Community To Come To Grips With Solving It.

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

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.

I'm Not Going To Put My Energy Into Focusing On Things That Are Hypothetical That We Don't Know.

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

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.

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.

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

We 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

[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.

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

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

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.

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.

Values Spoken Without Actions Taken Are Merely Slogans.

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.

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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.

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.

Without Question, We Need To Disarm Saddam Hussein. He Is A Brutal, Murderous Dictator, Leading An Oppressive Regime ... He Presents A Particularly Grievous Threat Because He Is So Consistently Prone To Miscalculation ... And Now He Is Miscalculating America's Response To His Continued Deceit And His Consistent Grasp For Weapons Of Mass Destruction ... So The Threat Of Saddam Hussein With Weapons Of Mass Destruction Is Real.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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.

People Talk About [bashar] Assad Running Syria. He Doesn't Control His Own Country. He's Down To About 20, 25 Percent Of The Country. What Is This Fiction That He Is Somehow The Only Person Who Can Save Syria? There's - With Assad There, There Is No Syria. So That's What The Iranians And The Russians Need To Really Begin To Focus In On.

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.

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

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