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.

John F. Kerry

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We are not interested in a proxy war. Our objective is to change... by John F. Kerry

We are not interested in a proxy war. Our objective is to change Russia's behavior.

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Jesus did not help just the sick who could afford to pay for it. by John F. Kerry

Jesus did not help just the sick who could afford to pay for it.

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The future belongs to freedom, not to fear. by John F. Kerry

The future belongs to freedom, not to fear.

I think as we celebrate the 70th anniversary of the UN, it's a good moment to rekindle our efforts to make multilateralism work yet again. And I'm proud to say that in the Iran agreement I think we did show that it can work.

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I don't want to claim that God is on our side. As Abraham Lincoln told us, I want to pray humbly that we are on God's side.

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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.

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The measurement in this race is not where you come from, it is "w... by John F. Kerry

The measurement in this race is not where you come from, it is "what do you fight for."

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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.

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Bush-McCain stategy in Iraq is policy to stay, not to win. by John F. Kerry

Bush-McCain stategy in Iraq is policy to stay, not to win.

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Democrats proposing success in Iraq by political solution. by John F. Kerry

Democrats proposing success in Iraq by political solution.

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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.

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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.

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We do not need to divide America over who served and how. I have personally always believed that many served in many different ways.

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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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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.

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We need to talk to all the players in the Middle East, not because we agree with them, but because they play a role.

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In case after case, President Bush's actions have made American women less safe and less secure -- on the job and on the streets. As president, I will put American government and our legal system back on the side of women. I will stand up for their security, ensure their safety, support their rights, and guarantee their dignity. This nation can do no less.

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It’s time we framed every question - every issue -- not in terms of what’s in it for ‘me,’ but what’s in it for all of us?

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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.

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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.

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