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Vote: | Anger is not going to change this country and do what needs to be done for America. |
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Vote: | I actually defeated an incumbent Republican senator who was part of the Jesse Helm's political machine in North Carolina, the result of which is I'm now the senior senator from North Carolina instead of Jesse Helms, which is a very good thing for this country. |
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Vote: | I didn't get to the Senate by accident. |
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Vote: | I have grown up in the bright light of America. |
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Vote: | I think an Edwards-Kerry ticket would be powerful. |
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Vote: | I want to be a champion for the people I have fought for all my life - regular people. |
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Vote: | I'd say if you live in the United States of America and you vote for George Bush, you've lost your mind. |
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Vote: | If we do the work that we can do in this country, the work that we will do when John Kerry is President, people like Christopher Reeve will get up out of that wheelchair and walk again. |
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Vote: | The facts are the vice president's company that he was CEO of, that did business with sworn enemies of the United States, paid millions of dollars in fines for providing false financial information, it's under investigation for bribing foreign officials. |
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Vote: | The president of the United States actually has to be able to walk and chew gum at the same time. |
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Vote: | The president said that he would unite this country, that he was a uniter, not a divider. Have you ever seen America more divided? Have you ever seen Washington more divided? |
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Vote: | There are 60 countries who have members of Al Qaida in them. How many of those countries are we going to invade? |
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Vote: | There is so much work to be done to treat gays and lesbians and gay and lesbian couples with the respect that they're entitled to. They deserve, in my judgment, partnership benefits. They deserve to be treated fairly when it comes to adoption and immigration. |
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Vote: | This is America, where everything is still possible. |
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Vote: | We will have one clear unmistakable message for Al Qaeda and these terrorists. You cannot run. You cannot hide. We will destroy you. |
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Vote: | When John Kerry is president, people like Christopher Reeve are going to walk. Get up out of that wheelchair and walk again. |
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Johnny Reid "John" Edwards (born June 10, 1953) is a former United States Senator from North Carolina. Edwards was one of the major contenders for the Democratic nomination in the 2004 U.S. presidential election, and went on to be the running mate of the unsuccessful 2004 Democratic presidential nominee, Senator John Kerry.
Childhood and family
Edwards was born in Seneca, South Carolina. He spent his formative years in the town of Robbins, North Carolina. His father was a textile mill production manager, while his mother was a postal employee. Edwards was the first person in his family to attend college, first attending Clemson University and then later transferring to North Carolina State University when his family moved to North Carolina. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in textile technology in 1974, and later earned a law degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, both with honors. While at UNC-Chapel Hill, he met and married his wife, fellow law student Mary Elizabeth Anania. When he started his legal career, he began using the name John rather than Johnny.
Edwards and his wife Elizabeth have had four children. Their first two, Wade and Catharine, were born soon after John and Elizabeth's marriage. Just one month prior to the beginning of testimony in the Lakey case in 1996, Edwards lost his 16-year-old son, Wade, in an automobile accident; in remembrance of his son, Edwards wears Wade's Outward Bound pin on his suit jacket. Following Wade's death, Edwards and his wife chose to have children again; their two youngest, Emma Claire (1999) and Jack (2001) The Edwards family resides in Raleigh, North Carolina and Washington DC.
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