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John Kerry

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John Kerry is a prominent Democratic politician from Massachusetts who served as the 68th Secretary of State from February 2013 to January 2017 under President Barack Obama. Prior to his role as Secretary of State, Kerry was a United States Senator, representing Massachusetts from January 1985 until June 2013. During his time in the Senate, he was known for his work on foreign relations, environmental issues, and healthcare reform. He played a significant role in the negotiation of the Paris Agreement on climate change, emphasizing the importance of international cooperation in addressing global challenges.

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Jun 3, 2008

Again, it is not true that every study says that. In fact, the EPA study itself comes out with about a .04 change in GDP at a time when the GDP is going up 97 percent according to our own administration. So it is simply not accurate to say…

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Jun 3, 2008

I ask the Senator, first, is he aware that the National Association of Manufacturers' report allows for zero technological advances; that it has no technological advances taken into account whatsoever? Does the Senator believe, in fact…

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Apr 3, 2008

I raised at that time the housing crisis, saying to the President that the entire cause of everything that was bringing us there to discuss the stimulus was in fact the subprime crisis and that no stimulus package should be passed that…

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Feb 12, 2008

Ultimately, it would be a mistake on either side, whether it's Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama, for super delegates to suddenly come in and say, 'To hell with you, the people. You all voted across the country, and we're going to change the…

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Feb 3, 2008

By years in office, experience is defined by wisdom and by instinct...

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Jan 9, 2008

I have the confidence and that Barack Obama can be, will be, and should be the next president of the United States.

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Jan 9, 2008

I have the confidence and that Barack Obama, can be, will be, and should be the next president of the United States.

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Sep 20, 2007

I further ask the Senator, if the civilian deaths are down to such a degree that Baghdad is such a security success, why did the Iraqi Legislature not reconcile on the issue of oil or debaathification?

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Sep 20, 2007

On his own charts, he showed that two-thirds of the reduction of violence took place before our troops even got there; isn't that right?

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Sep 17, 2007

The student, Andrew Meyer, was released from jail this morning. Cops tasered him after he loudly and repeatedly tried to ask questions at the forum, Anderson.

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Aug 2, 2007

Senator Snowe and I have joined together, as the chair and ranking member of the Small Business Committee, to put together a task force effort between the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Secretary of Labor, Secretary of the…

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Jul 17, 2007

Well, there's clearly elimination of people based on their own their racial definition or their religious definition.

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Jul 17, 2007

Well, I think what's happened is that they feel they're in a confrontation in defense of their president and their party. And that, unfortunately, has taken a precedence.

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Jul 17, 2007

What about their Iraqi counterparts planning to take all of next month off while American forces fight and die?

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Jul 17, 2007

They have another agenda. They have another series of agendas and different agendas according to different people.

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Jul 17, 2007

There already is a kind of light -- I hate to say this -- I mean, it sounds horrible, but a sort of genocide-light, in the sense that there's been ethnic cleansing taking place and whole communities have been moved right now.

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Jul 17, 2007

Well, certainly in modern U.S. foreign policy history, without any question, and possibly in all of our history, yes.

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Jul 17, 2007

What we need to do, hopefully, is pull the parties together here and make policy for our country and for the soldiers, not for either party.

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May 15, 2007

On my time. The Senator said he had a whole lot of peer-reviewed studies. I would ask the Senator a simple question: Does he have one peer-reviewed study that says conclusively global climate change is not happening as a consequence of…

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Apr 26, 2007

Under current law, improvements made to rented retail property are depreciated over 15 years. Improvements made to owned property are depreciated over 39 years. The current tax treatment of improvements to retail property results in an…

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Jan 12, 2007

But after the legislation is enacted, the Member will still receive a refund of all of their personal contributions--those will not be taken away--into either the Federal Employees Retirement System or the Civil Service Retirement System…

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Jan 11, 2007

Public servants who abuse the public trust and are convicted of ethics crimes should not collect taxpayer-financed pensions.

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Nov 9, 2006

It's time to say to the Iraqis, we're giving you to this period of time. Get your act together. We're coming home.

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Oct 31, 2006

I sincerely regret that my words were misinterpreted to wrongly imply anything negative about those in uniform. And I personally apologize to any service member, family member, or American who was offended.

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Oct 30, 2006

I'm sick and tired of a whole bunch of Republican attacks, the most of which come from people who never wore the uniform and never had the courage to stand up and go to war themselves.

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