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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.

-John F. Kerry

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When President Bush Sees

John F. Kerry

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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.

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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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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.

Mass Destruction

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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.

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

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

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Guarantees That

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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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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If [bashar] Assad Himself Could Save This Whole Process By Saying, "i Will Engage In A Managed Transition Where We All Work Together To Stabilize The Government, Save The Institutions Of Government, And Turn On Isil And Preserve Syria." That Could Happen. It All Depends On One Man, And Russia And Iran Should Not Be So Stubborn Here That They Tie This Whole Thing Up Simply Because Of One Person.

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Nuclear Weapons

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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.

Ability To Change

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

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

And Now That The Greatest Generation Is Getting Older, I Think It Is The Responsibility Of All Americans To Make Sure We Do Our Part For America's Seniors. You Have Earned The Best Of America -- And We Need To Make Sure You Get The Protection And Health Care You Deserve.

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.

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.

We Have To Recognize That There Is A Strong, Fresh Wind Blowing, Powered By These New Information Technologies. It Will Be Increasingly Difficult For Dictators To Impose Their Will Through Sheer Brutality.

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.

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.

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 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.

You Cannot Bring Peace In Syria As Long As [bashar] Assad Is, In Fact, There.

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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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.

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

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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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.

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.

You Just Don't Invade Another Country On Phony Pretext In Order To Assert Your Interests!

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

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

The American Spirit Wears No Political Label. In Service To Others And Yes, In Sacrifice For Our Country, There Are No Republicans; There Are No Democrats; There Are Only Americans.

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.

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

We Need A New Approach To National Security - A Bold, Progressive Internationalism That Stands In Stark Contrast To The Too Often Belligerent And Myopic Unilateralism Of The Bush Administration.

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

We Have An Electorate That Doesn't Always Pay That Much Attention To What's Going On So People Are Influenced By A Simple Slogan Rather Than The Facts Or Truth Or What's Happening.

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

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

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.

There Is Some Schedule Showing What You (need) To Do To Get Iraqis Standing Up And Defending Themselves Which Is Now Suddenly Beginning To Happen, So There Are Some Signs Of Progress.

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.

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

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.

What We Do Right Now, Today, Matters.

The Problems Of Health Care Can Be Solved If We Stop Giving Tax Cuts To Those Who Have The Most, And Start Making Health Care Affordable For Those Working Harder And Harder For Too Little.

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

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.

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.

Unlike George Bush And His Friends At The Big Oil Companies, I'm Going To Work For A Real Energy Policy For This Country That Decreases America's Dependence On Foreign Oil And Helps Lower The Costs To American Families.

I Think, All In All, The Obama Administration And What President Obama Has Focused On Has Lived Up To Our Need To Protect American Interests, To Live Our Values And Assert Our Values, And To Stand Up For Future Generations.

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

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

Middle Class Americans Don't Ask For Special Favors, They Just Want Basic Fairness, And A President Who Fights For That Ideal.

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

I Just Want To Assure You That Both President Bush And I Have Very Firm Alibis.

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.

It's Hard To Believe That In The Greatest Democracy In The World, We Need Legislation To Prevent The Government From Writing And Paying For The News.

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.

The Threat Of Saddam Hussein With Weapons Of Mass Destruction Is Real, But As I Said, It Is Not New. It Has Been With Us Since The End Of That War, And Particularly In The Last 4 Years We Know After Operation Desert Fox Failed To Force Him To Reaccept Them, That He Has Continued To Build Those Weapons. He Has Had A Free Hand For 4 Years To Reconstitute These Weapons, Allowing The World, During The Interval, To Lose The Focus We Had On Weapons Of Mass Destruction And The Issue Of Proliferation.

Mass Destruction

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

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.

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.

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.

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