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All Quotes by author - John F. Kerry

" 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. "

" Democracy relies on free speech. Yes, say anything you want, but it relies even more on the speech being truthful. It is the truth, after all, that sets us free. "

" Foreign policy is effectively the assertion of many individual countries intersecting on the global marketplace. And you have to figure out how to get your interest served in a way that meets the interests and needs of these other folks. "

" If we don't preserve the oceans from nitrate runoff and plastic and chemicals, and if we don't preserve it from acidification, and if we don't preserve it from grotesque overfishing - too much money chasing too few fish - we're going to have the most massive ecosystem on the planet in peril. "

" I have been passionate about the oceans since I dipped my toes in the water at the first age of three. "

" I know there are a lot of musicians and a lot of artists, and there are a lot of writers and other people who inspire young people, but I'd like to see somebody in political life be able to connect and make these choices that we need to make in Washington real in terms of people's lives. "

" I'm a person who has always believed that you tell people the truth, and they'll make reasonable decisions. Truth is powerful. "

" I'm fascinated by rap and by hip-hop. I think there's a lot of poetry in it. There's a lot of anger, a lot of social energy in it. And I think you'd better listen to it pretty carefully, 'cause it's important. "

" In the time I've spent in public life, one of the things I've learned is that some issues look a lot different when you're actually in office compared to when you're on the campaign trail. "

" I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service. "

" I think George Mitchell is a consummate professional. He is the ideal selection to handle the job of special envoy if you choose to have a special envoy. "

" It took President Obama to make America lead like America again. "

" I went into the Navy because I love the ocean, and I am still privileged to have a place that I can go to that's by the water. "

" I would rather be the candidate of the NAACP than the NRA. "

" Mitt Romney says he believes in America and that he will restore American exceptionalism. I have news for him, we already have an exceptional American as president and we believe in Barack Obama. "

" 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. "

" President Obama and I both believe we don't have time for a meeting anywhere of the Flat Earth Society. "

" President Obama has made it his mission that we welcome our troops home with care and concern and the respect they deserve. That is how an exceptional nation says thank you to its most exceptional men and women. "

" Real Democrats don't abandon the middle class. "

" Republican secretaries of state from Kissinger to Baker, Powell to Rice, President Bush, 71 United States Senators all supported President Obama's new START treaty, but not Mitt Romney. "

" 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 consequences of a crime should not be out of proportion to the crime itself. "

" War should be not a war of choice; it should be a war of necessity. And it should be a last resort. "

" We have traded a dictator for a chaos that has left America less secure. "

" When we walk away from global warming, Kyoto, when we are irresponsibly slow in moving toward AIDS in Africa, when we don't advance and live up to our own rhetoric and standards, we set a terrible message of duplicity and hypocrisy. "

" Young people have so much more power than they tend to think to be able to affect politics. And if people will organize and get involved and go out and knock on doors and hand out leaflets and make a change, then they can determine the future. "

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