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John Kerry
@johnkerry· Democratic · MA· Sep 6, 2004

I think this whole thing does come down to one letter, George W. Bush. W stands for wrong -- wrong directions, wrong choices. And it is time to put it right.

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John Kerry
@johnkerry· Democratic · MA· Sep 6, 2004

He had $5.6 trillion of surplus, right? He made a choice about what to do with that. A lot of us made a different choice. I voted against his plan. I thought his was the wrong choice.

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John Kerry
@johnkerry· Democratic · MA· Sep 6, 2004

That's $200 billion that we're not investing in health care in America. That's $200 billion we're not investing in schools in America. That's $200 billion that we're not investing in prescription drugs for seniors.

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John Kerry
@johnkerry· Democratic · MA· Sep 6, 2004

Of all the wrong choices that President Bush has made, the most catastrophic choice is the mess that he has made in Iraq.

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John Kerry
@johnkerry· Democratic · MA· Sep 6, 2004

And I will tell you that of all the wrong choices, of all the wrong choices that President Bush has made, the most catastrophic choice is the mess that he has made in Iraq.

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John Kerry
@johnkerry· Democratic · MA· Sep 5, 2004

the last Democratic president over eight years helped us create 23 million new jobs. That's compared to George Bush losing a million jobs. That's W. Wrong, wrong choices, wrong direction for America.

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John Kerry
@johnkerry· Democratic · MA· Sep 2, 2004

I think that leaving 45 million Americans without any health insurance at all and allowing 5 million more Americans to lose their health insurance in the last four years makes you unfit to lead this nation.

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John Kerry
@johnkerry· Democratic · MA· Sep 2, 2004

I don't think this is something to celebrate. I think it's something to get to work on.

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John Kerry
@johnkerry· Democratic · MA· Sep 2, 2004

I think misleading your nation into war makes you unfit to lead this nation. I think that doing nothing when millions of Americans are losing their jobs over four years and doing nothing makes you unfit to lead this nation.

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John Kerry
@johnkerry· Democratic · MA· Sep 2, 2004

Every single one of us wants to extend to him our best wishes, our prayers, and our thoughts...

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John Kerry
@johnkerry· Democratic · MA· Sep 2, 2004

My friends, at the rate that this administration is creating jobs, you're not going to have a net-plus one job in the state of Ohio until the year 2011.

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Hillary Clinton
@hillaryclinton· Democratic · NY· Sep 2, 2004

He went to our local hospital yesterday complaining of some chest pains and shortness of breath. And the initial testing was normal, so he spent the night at home...

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Hillary Clinton
@hillaryclinton· Democratic · NY· Sep 2, 2004

I'm just so pleased that he's in such good spirits, and obviously we're in one of the great hospitals in the world with superb medical staff. He had excellent care at the Westchester Medical Center with our doctors there. And he's going to…

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