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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.

-John F. Kerry

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This Revolution Began With

John F. Kerry

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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.

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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.

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.

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.

Our Military Is Overextended. Nine Out Of 10 Active-duty Army Divisions Are Either In Iraq, Going To Iraq Or Have Come Back From Iraq. One Way Or The Other, They're Wrapped Up In It.

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

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.

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

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

It's Likely That People Will Say We're All Interested In Destroying - Isil Is A Threat To Everybody. There Isn't One Country In The Region That Doesn't Despise What Isil Stands For And Is Doing And That Doesn't Want To Eliminate Them.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

Let Me Just Say You Could End This Violence Within A Very Short Period Of Time, Have A Complete Ceasefire - Which Iran Could Control, Which Russia Could Control, Which Syria Could Control, And Which We And Our Coalition Friends Could Control - If One Man Would Merely Make It Known To The World That He Doesn't Have To Be Part Of The Long-term Future; He'll Help Manage Syria Out Of This Mess And Then Go Off Into The Sunset, As Most People Do After A Period Of Public Life. If He Were To Do That, Then You Could Stop The Violence And Quickly Move To Management.

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?

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 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 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.

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.

I Think George Mitchell Is A Consummate Professional. He Is The Ideal Selection To Handle The Job Of Special Envoy If You Choose To Have A Special Envoy.

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

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.

Ask Osama Bin Laden Is He Is Better Off Now Than He Was Four Years Ago.

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