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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.

-John F. Kerry

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John F. Kerry

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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.

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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.

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Aircraft Carriers

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Developing Countries

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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 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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

The Future Belongs To Freedom, Not To Fear.

We Can't Change Minds Without Knowing What's In Them.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

My Dad Was A Member Of The Greatest Generation That Achieved Victory In World War Ii. This Was The Generation That Saved The World From Fascism, Came Home And Built The Great American Middle Class, Led The Way In The Civil Rights Movement, Protected Our Environment, And Created Great Programs Like Medicare.

I'm A Catholic, Raised A Catholic. I Was An Altar Boy. Religion Has Been A Huge Part Of My Life. It Helped Lead Me Through A War, Leads Me Today.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Osama Bin Laden

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

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

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

President Obama

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

You Know, Education, If You Make The Most Of It, You Study Hard, You Do Your Homework And You Make An Effort To Be Smart, You Can Do Well. If You Don’t, You Get Stuck In Iraq.

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.

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