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John Kerry
@johnkerry· Democratic · MA· Feb 23, 2015

Well, you will review it. Of course, you will review it.

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John Kerry
@johnkerry· Democratic · MA· Feb 23, 2015

The greatest wreaking of havoc of all, and the most destabilizing thing, would be if, in fact, you had a nuclear armed Iran.

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John Kerry
@johnkerry· Democratic · MA· Feb 23, 2015

If we can't have a serious conversation about this without politicizing it on cable TV and making it a scoring point for 1 day, we are in trouble.

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John Kerry
@johnkerry· Democratic · MA· Feb 23, 2015

If this ceasefire doesn't work, what will Europe do beyond sanctions in response to protect Ukraine?

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John Kerry
@johnkerry· Democratic · MA· Feb 23, 2015

$300 million of that $1 billion will help improve security, speaks specifically to security.

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John Kerry
@johnkerry· Democratic · MA· Feb 23, 2015

What we want is as large a vote as possible for Congress to say Daesh deserves to be defeated, and we are committed to the fight.

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John Kerry
@johnkerry· Democratic · MA· Feb 23, 2015

I am worried about where we are, and I have joined with a dozen of my colleagues, Democrats and Republicans, urging you to call on the President to provide defensive arms to Ukraine and to do it quickly.

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John Kerry
@johnkerry· Democratic · MA· Feb 23, 2015

It is up to us, and that is my message for my opening statement.

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John Kerry
@johnkerry· Democratic · MA· Feb 23, 2015

Sequestration is depriving the United States of America, the world's most powerful nation on the face of the planet and the world's richest nation.

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John Kerry
@johnkerry· Democratic · MA· Feb 23, 2015

President Obama has made it clear that Iran will not obtain a nuclear weapon.

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John Kerry
@johnkerry· Democratic · MA· Feb 23, 2015

I believe we legitimately--I mean, you may disagree with how we are doing in Libya at this particular moment or you may think something more should have been going on in Syria.

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John Kerry
@johnkerry· Democratic · MA· Feb 23, 2015

We had a counterterrorism summit this past week, last week, which really underscored how big a challenge this is.

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John Kerry
@johnkerry· Democratic · MA· Feb 23, 2015

We are requesting $1 billion to help our friends in Central America make the difficult reforms required.

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John Kerry
@johnkerry· Democratic · MA· Feb 23, 2015

I absolutely guarantee you that well more than 50 percent of the history of this era will be written off that 1 percent and off the things we do or do not choose to do in terms of foreign affairs.

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John Kerry
@johnkerry· Democratic · MA· Feb 23, 2015

It is institutionalizing the notion that Congress is either unwilling or incapable of making a decision and choices.

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John Kerry
@johnkerry· Democratic · MA· Feb 23, 2015

We cannot trust these people in that government for 1 second.

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John Kerry
@johnkerry· Democratic · MA· Feb 23, 2015

what is important here also is for the world to see that the United States Congress is uniting in a significant vote.

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