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

After being warned about the danger of major stockpiles of explosives in Iraq, this president failed to guard those stockpiles where nearly 380 tons of highly explosive weapons were kept.

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

This is one of the great additional blunders of Iraq, the unbelievable incompetence of this administration.

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

Secretary Rumsfeld, we know, cavalierly dismissed the danger of looting, and now we know the impact.

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

This isn't about being a Democrat or a Republican. It is about bringing Democrats and Republicans together for a higher purpose.

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John Kerry
@johnkerry· Democratic · MA· Oct 21, 2004

But in terms of purchasing power, the minimum wage is at the lowest that it's been in 50 years. How dare this administration tell Americans this is the best economy of our lifetime?

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John Kerry
@johnkerry· Democratic · MA· Oct 21, 2004

And millions of women, women particularly, struggle to get by on the minimum wage.

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John Kerry
@johnkerry· Democratic · MA· Oct 21, 2004

After they punch out at work, many of them punch right back in at home for the next shift as the caregiver, the meal cooker, the financial planner, the housecleaner, and all the other jobs that they have to do to support their families.

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John Kerry
@johnkerry· Democratic · MA· Oct 21, 2004

Clearly, that would make the difference for him if he was able to win that by 11 points in the same way that Al Gore did four years ago.

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John Kerry
@johnkerry· Democratic · MA· Oct 20, 2004

Fifty-two percent of undergraduates from around the country favored Senator Kerry, 39 percent President Bush, and 8 percent remain undecided.

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John Kerry
@johnkerry· Democratic · MA· Oct 20, 2004

But if George Bush had been president during other periods of American history, he would have sided with the candle lobby against electricity. He would have been with the buggy makers against the cars, and the typewriter companies against…

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John Kerry
@johnkerry· Democratic · MA· Oct 20, 2004

It's wrong to tell scientists that they can't cross the frontiers of new knowledge. It's wrong morally and it's wrong economically.

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John Kerry
@johnkerry· Democratic · MA· Oct 20, 2004

I am a hunter. I'm a gun owner. I've been a hunter since I was a kid, 12, 13-years-old.

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John Kerry
@johnkerry· Democratic · MA· Oct 19, 2004

The president keeps saying how certain he is about things, but you can't just be always certain and frequently wrong. It doesn't make sense.

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John Kerry
@johnkerry· Democratic · MA· Oct 19, 2004

They can't come here to Ohio and talk to you about the jobs they have created, because they've lost 1.6 million jobs, 237,000 of them right here.

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John Kerry
@johnkerry· Democratic · MA· Oct 19, 2004

Our troops are the best-trained, best-led forces in the world, and they have been doing their job honorably and bravely. And the problem is the commander in chief has not been doing his.

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John Kerry
@johnkerry· Democratic · MA· Oct 19, 2004

You know, the president says he's a leader. Well, Mr. President, look behind you. There's hardly anyone there.

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John Kerry
@johnkerry· Democratic · MA· Oct 19, 2004

My fellow Americans, on November 2, Social Security is on the ballot. A choice between one candidate who will save Social Security and another who will undermine it.

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John Kerry
@johnkerry· Democratic · MA· Oct 19, 2004

I mean, that's almost like a schoolyard decision, you know? You learn more in elementary school and high school than they seem to have applied in the conduct of this war.

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