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The senator's caveats and curlicues.

By |Posted Tuesday, June 22, 2004, at 1:12 PM ET

What did he say?
What did he say?

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Question: But no regrets about those votes [for NAFTA and the China trade agreement]?

Kerry: 1 Sure.

—Democratic presidential primary debate, Milwaukee, Feb. 15, 2004

[1] I regret the way that they haven't been enforced,

Verbatim:

I regret the way that they haven't been enforced, sure.

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