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John F. Kerry Biography

John Forbes Kerry (/ˈkɛri/; born December 11, 1943) is an American politician who served as the 68th United States Secretary of State from 2013 to 2017. A Democrat, he previously represented Massachusetts in the United States Senate from 1985 to 2013. He was the Democratic nominee in the 2004 presidential election, losing to Republican incumbent George W. Bush.

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If we can't have a serious conversation without politicizing it on cable TV and making it a scoring point for one day, we're in trouble.

Cable, Cable Tv, Making, One Day, Scoring, Tvs

Three-quarters of [Bashar Assad] country is displaced. It's in Jordan, it's in Lebanon, it's in Turkey, and in the desert. The threat is that those people in the desert and others could become the next acolytes of ISIL if we don't find a way to join together to go after ISIL.

Bashar, Country, Join, People, Turkey, Turkeys

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. "

America, Benefit, Benefits, Hey, Today, World

We must recognize that there is no indication that Saddam Hussein has any intention of relenting. So we have an obligation of enormous consequence, an obligation to guarantee that Saddam Hussein cannot ignore the United Nations. He cannot be permitted to go unobserved and unimpeded toward his horrific objective of amassing a stockpile of weapons of mass destruction.

Guarantees That, Mass, Mass Destruction, Objective, United, Weapons

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.

Ability, Crisis, Democracy, Same, Thinking, World

Terrorist organizations with specific political agendas may be encouraged and emboldened by Yasser Arafat's transformation from outlaw to statesman.

Agendas, Emboldened, Organization, Political, Transformation

There are all kinds of atrocities, and I would have to say that, yes, yes, I committed the same kind of atrocities as thousands of other soldiers have committed in that I took part in shootings in free fire zones. I conducted harassment and interdiction fire.

Atrocities, Fire, Interdiction, Soldier, Yes

We should not allow a tiny minority of shoddy scientists and science and extreme ideologues to compete with scientific facts.

Extreme, Facts, Minorities, Science, Scientific, Tiny

NAFTA recognizes the reality of today's economy - globalization and technology. Our future is not in competing at the low-level wage job; it is in creating high-wage, new technology jobs based on our skills and our productivity.

Competing, Jobs, Reality, Technology

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.

Agreement, Complicated, Iranians, People, Saudis, Together

Great physicians and nurses, skilled, caring and unparalleled in their training, intervened in my life and probably saved it. I was lucky but other Americans are not. It is time to speak again and stand again for the ideal that in the richest nation ever on this planet, it is wrong for 41 million Americans, most of them in working families, to worry at night and wake up in the morning without the basic protection of health insurance.

Basic, Caring, Health, Intervened, Morning, Night

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.

Alliances, Country, Kennedy, Strong, Strongest

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.

Continuing, Country, Deception, Open, Rooted, War

I'm John Kerry, and I'm reporting for duty.

Duty, John, John Kerry, Kerry, Reporting

We cannot fight communism all over the world, and I think we should have learned that lesson by now.

Communism, Fight, Fighting, Lesson, Should Have, Thinking

It's very hard to get other countries to give up their weapons when you're busy developing a new one.

Countries, Country, Developing, Giving Up, Weapons

My friends, that's trickle-down economics, and I believe every worker in America is tired of being trickled on by George W. Bush

America, Believe, Economics, Friends, George, Tired

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.

War, Believe, America, Bush, George, Ought

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.

Needs, Progress, Schedules, Showing, Signs

Great challenges confront our great nation. We seek to meet them by rising to the task, not by defining our country down.

Challenges, Country, Defining, Meet, Rising

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