This Friday was absolutely indiscriminate. It wasn't to aggrieve one particular sense of wrong. It was to terrorize people. It was to attack everything that we do stand for.

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"Remarks to the Staff and Families of U.S. Embassy, Paris" (17 November 2015) on the November 2015 Paris attacks; also quoted in "John Kerry: Charlie Hebdo Attack Had ‘Legitimacy,’ ‘Rationale’ Behind It" by Alex Griswold, mediaite.com (17 November 2015)

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