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John Kerry
@johnkerry· Democratic · MA· Sep 30, 2004

My friends, this is the president who created a tax gap by providing a tax cut to the wealthiest Americans instead of investing in homeland security and the United States.

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John Kerry
@johnkerry· Democratic · MA· Sep 30, 2004

53 percent of those interviewed thought they thought that Senator Kerry did the best job, while 37 percent picked the president.

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John Kerry
@johnkerry· Democratic · MA· Sep 29, 2004

The governor tries to take credit for the jobs, 250,000. He sounds like the rooster who's trying to take credit for the sunrise.

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John Kerry
@johnkerry· Democratic · MA· Sep 29, 2004

He is a Massachusetts liberal, he's been voting against defense and intelligence all his life.

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John Kerry
@johnkerry· Democratic · MA· Sep 29, 2004

I fought in a mistake called Vietnam. How are we going to have confidence that you're not going to vote in a war and peace issue for another mistake?

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John Kerry
@johnkerry· Democratic · MA· Sep 29, 2004

George Bush intends to make national security the key issue of this campaign. He has to. There's nothing else for him to run on.

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John Kerry
@johnkerry· Democratic · MA· Sep 29, 2004

I have a plan to get us out of Iraq, I have a plan to win the thing. And if Bush won't even recognize that it's going in the wrong direction, so he can't have a plan to win, because he thinks things are going great already.

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John Kerry
@johnkerry· Democratic · MA· Sep 29, 2004

He has a very sophisticated concept that going after Saddam Hussein and getting rid of this tyrant was a setback in the war on terror.

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

I tend to look at it from the point of view of a human being thinking about how we can make things work.

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

It's not worth more. It's not. It's not worth anything. It's scum that ought to be thrown into jail for the rest of its life and that ought to learn day after day the pain and hell of living with a loss of freedom and with the crime…

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

I know something about killing. I don't like killing. And I don't think a state honors life by turning around and sanctioning killing.

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

Governor, that was for people who were earning more than $100,000, governor.

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

It has given us steady growth in this country, 10.5 million jobs, low interest rates, low inflation, low unemployment.

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

Tomorrow, we're live from Miami as President Bush and Senator Kerry square off in their first televised debate.

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

Tomorrow, we'll take a close look at Senator Kerry's debating skills.

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

If you're not kind of prepared for these things after a year and a half of running, I guess you shouldn't be running.

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

This president had four years to do it. He just doesn't get it. And I understand how to bring those countries back to our side.

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