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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.

-John F. Kerry

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We Will Fight Anyone

John F. Kerry

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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.

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Mass Destruction

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

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.

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 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.

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.

I Know Something About Aircraft Carriers For Real.

Aircraft Carriers

I Look Forward To Standing Up And Holding George Bush Accountable For Pushing Seniors Off Of Medicare Into Hmos.

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.

And Here And Now We Must Insist Again That Fidelity, Honor, And Love Of Country Demand Untrammeled Debate And Open Dissent. At No Time Is That Truer Than In The Midst Of A War Rooted In Deceit And Justified By Continuing Deception.

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

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.

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.

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.

The Agreement Is Fundamentally That We Want To Try To Resolve This. The Agreement Is That Isil Is A Threat To Everybody, And We Need To Come Together To Find A Way To Fight Isil. The Agreement Is That We Want To Save Syria, Keep It Unified, Keep It Secular. So Surely In Those Very Fundamental Principles On Which We Could Agree.

I Am Sympathetic To Developing Countries’ Concerns: Because Of Our Emissions It’s Their Crops That Will Disappear; Because Of Our Inaction, It’s Their Fields That Turn To Desert...

Developing Countries

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.

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

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.

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.

There Is A Much Cheaper Way, Less Complicated Way To Bring Iraq And Saddam Hussein To Its Knees: It Is Simply To Send The Bush Economic Team Over There And Let Them Run The Country.

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

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

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

If You Can Resolve This Transition Of [bashar] Assad, That Is Absolutely Possible, But You Have To Have A Clarity For Everybody About The Way Forward.

Real Democrats Don't Abandon The Middle Class.

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

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

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

Osama Bin Laden

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.

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.

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.

It's Hard To Say That Something Is Legitimate When A Whole Portion Of The Country Can't Vote And Doesn't Vote.

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

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.

Values Spoken Without Actions Taken Are Merely Slogans.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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