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John Kerry
@johnkerry· Democratic · MA· Oct 28, 2004

As Americans, we are absolutely united in our determination to hunt down and destroy Osama bin Laden and the terrorists. They are barbarians. And I will stop at absolutely nothing to hunt down, capture, or kill the terrorists wherever they…

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John Kerry
@johnkerry· Democratic · MA· Oct 27, 2004

... people who are in the middle class struggling to get ahead, people who play by the rules, pay their taxes, get up in the morning, go to work, try to find work.

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John Kerry
@johnkerry· Democratic · MA· Oct 27, 2004

people who are in the middle class struggling to get ahead, people who play by the rules, pay their taxes, get up in the morning, go to work, try to find work.

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John Kerry
@johnkerry· Democratic · MA· Oct 27, 2004

If they won't tell the truth in an ad, they won't tell the truth about anything else. This doctored commercial is fundamentally dishonest and insults the intelligence of the American people.

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John Kerry
@johnkerry· Democratic · MA· Oct 27, 2004

And now, George Bush's shifting explanations, an effort to blame everybody except themselves, is evidence that he believes the buck stops anywhere but with the president.

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John Kerry
@johnkerry· Democratic · MA· Oct 26, 2004

Vice President Cheney, who is becoming the chief minister of disinformation, he echoed that it's not the administration's fault, and he even criticized those who raised the subject.

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John Kerry
@johnkerry· Democratic · MA· Oct 26, 2004

Mr. President, for the sake of our brave men and women in uniform, for the sake of those troops who are in danger, because of your wrong decisions, you owe America real answers about what happened, not just political attacks.

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John Kerry
@johnkerry· Democratic · MA· Oct 26, 2004

You know, President Bush says he's got a plan to fix the economy. Carole King wrote a song that sums up my feelings about that, 'It's Too Late, Baby.'

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John Kerry
@johnkerry· Democratic · MA· Oct 26, 2004

Kerry hammers the president on the missing weapons, while Bush asks for help from an unlikely source, Democrats.

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John Kerry
@johnkerry· Democratic · MA· Oct 26, 2004

If we re-elect Bush he's not only Iraq going to continue to go badly, bit that we will go into Iran and we may go into North Korea.

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John McCain
@johnmccain· Republican · AZ· Oct 26, 2004

It should remain an argument among friends who share an unshaken belief in our great cause, and in the goodness of each other, we are Americans first, Americans last, and Americans always.

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John Kerry
@johnkerry· Democratic · MA· Oct 25, 2004

Terrorists could be helping themselves to what has been called, I quote -- and this is by the people who reported them missing -- 'the greatest explosives bonanza in history.'

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John Kerry
@johnkerry· Democratic · MA· Oct 25, 2004

We will fight tooth and nail to make sure that this time, every vote is counted, and every vote counts.

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John Kerry
@johnkerry· Democratic · MA· Oct 25, 2004

Time and again, this president has made the wrong decisions. Time and again, he has chosen the wrong path.

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John Kerry
@johnkerry· Democratic · MA· Oct 25, 2004

I think when he was -- when George Bush was on the couch thinking in Texas, this guy was working on terrorism in the BCCI scandal, for example.

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John Kerry
@johnkerry· Democratic · MA· Oct 25, 2004

Mr. President, what else are you being silent about? What else are you keeping from the American people?

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John Kerry
@johnkerry· Democratic · MA· Oct 24, 2004

The president kept responding, It is hard work. It is hard work. It is hard work. Well, my fellow Americans, I am ready, and I would be privileged, and I am impatient to relieve this president of that hard work.

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