John McCain Quotes
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Americans want jobs. They want affordable health insurance. They want an education.
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Our national political campaigns never stop. We seem convinced that majorities exist to impose their will with few concessions and that minorities exist to prevent the party in power from doing anything important. That's not how we were meant to govern.
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I fell in love with my country when I was a prisoner in someone else's.
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I thought I'd be president of the United States.
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We must win in Iraq. If we withdraw, there will be chaos; there will be genocide; and they will follow us home.
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I'm not against a border wall, OK, but go to China, and you'll see a border wall there. We need technology, we need drones, we need surveillance capabilities, and we need rapid-reaction capabilities.
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We know that Medicare's going broke in seven years, but we need to start over. That's what the American people want us to do.
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I am frustrated and outraged by the slow nature of change at the VA.
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The issue of economics is not something I’ve understood as well as I should. I’ve got Greenspan’s book.... I've never been involved in Wall Street, I've never been involved in the financial stuff, the financial workings of the country, so I'd like to have somebody intimately familiar with it.
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You may have noticed that Senator Obama's supporters have been saying some pretty nasty things about western Pennsylvania lately. And you know, I couldn't agree with them more.
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We have drawn down to pre-surge levels.
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When you're not winning, you're losing.
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I think it's important for the president of the United States to be aware of the intelligence information that we have.
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The problem... is that most members of Congress don't pay attention to what's going on.
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The president has promised greater border security. We can agree to that. A literal wall might not be the most effective means to that end, but we can provide the resources necessary to secure the border with smart and affordable measures.
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I don’t know if I would want him as vice president. He and I have the same strengths. But to serve in other capacities? Hell, yeah.
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Why should you shake hands with somebody who's keeping Americans in prison? I mean, what's the point? Neville Chamberlain shook hands with Hitler.
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I think one of our big problems has been the fact that many Iraqis resent American military presence. And I don't pretend to know exactly Iraqi public opinion. But as soon as we can reduce our visibility as much as possible, the better I think it is going to be.
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I believe in prayer. I pray every night.
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The U.S. does not involve itself in what is happening in the world's largest democracy, nor does it intend to do so.
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Neither party should be defined by pandering to the outer reaches of American politics and the agents of intolerance, whether they be Louis Farrakhan and Al Sharpton on the left, or Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell on the right.
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Americans and Europeans share a common goal - to build an enduring peace based on freedom.
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I am a Republican. I'm loyal to the party of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. And I believe that my party, in some ways, has strayed from those principles, particularly on the issue of fiscal discipline.
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The tide of war dose not recede just be cause we wish it to.