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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.

-John F. Kerry

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John F. Kerry

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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.

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Guarantees That

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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.

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

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.

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.

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?

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

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

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

Capturing Saddam Hussein And Ensuring That This Brutal Dictator Will Never Return To Power Is An Important Step Toward Stabilizing Iraq For The Iraqis. Let's Also Be Clear: Our Problems In Iraq Have Not Been Caused By One Man, And This Is A Moment When The Administration Can And Must Launch A Major Effort To Gain International Support And Win The Peace.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Mass Destruction

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.

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 Came Into Public Life During The 1960s When A Whole Bunch Of Us Believed In Our Ability To Change The World. And We Did A Lot Of Things.

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What We Need To Do Is Raise The Minimum Wage. We Also Need To Hold Onto Equal Pay. Women Work For 76 Cents On The Dollar For The Same Work That Men Do. That's Not Right In America.

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.

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

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

I Don't Think Losing 3 Million Jobs, Having Deficits As Far As The Eye Can Go, Having 2 Million People Lose Their Health Insurance, Turning Your Back On Kids In Schools And Not Funding No Child Left Behind Represents A Vision.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Glossed Over The Disastrous War And Its Multibillion-dollar Price Tag And Implied Again That Our Presence In Iraq Is Somehow Improving The Situation In That Chaotic And Turbulent Country. The Congress Must Stand Up Against Bush's Plan To Escalate The War.

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.

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

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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