John McCain Quotes
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The vice president has two duties. One is to inquire daily as to the health of the president, and the other is to attend the funerals of third world dictators. And neither of those do I find an enjoyable exercise.
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I believe in prayer. I pray every night.
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We have drawn down to pre-surge levels.
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I've got to give you some straight talk: Some of the jobs that have left the state of Michigan are not coming back. They are not. And I am sorry to tell you that.
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Saddam Hussein is a risk-taking aggressor who has attacked four countries, used chemical weapons against his own people, professed a desire to harm the United States and its allies, and, even faced with the prospect of his regime's imminent destruction, has still refused to abide by Security Council demands that he disarm.
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I guess my view is I believe less governance is best governance and that government should not do what the free enterprise and private enterprise and indidividual entrepreneurship and the states can do.
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I love him dearly. On issues of economics and … family values, there's nobody that I know that's stronger.
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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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For America, our interests are our values, and our values are our interests.
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The French repulsed wave after wave of frontal attacks at Dien Bien Phu. The 1968 Tet offensive against the U.S. was a military disaster that effectively destroyed the Viet Cong. But Giap persisted and prevailed.
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Politics abhors a vacuum, and Asian countries will gravitate towards China if U.S. influence is perceived as declining.
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Anybody who believes the surge has not succeeded, militarily, politically and in most other ways, frankly, does not know the facts on the ground.
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Maybe that’s a way of killing them.
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I hate the gooks. I will hate them as long as I live.
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Depriving the oppressed of a beacon of hope could lose us the world we have built and thrived in. It could cost our reputation in history as the nation distinct from all others in our achievements, our identity, and our enduring influence on mankind. Our values are central to all three.
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The way you have bipartisan negotiations, you sit down across the table, as we did with Ted Kennedy, as I've done with many other members, and you say, 'OK, here's what I want, here's what you want. We'll adhere to your principles, but we'll make concessions.'
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A strong E.U., a strong NATO, and a true strategic partnership between them is profoundly in our interest.
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I will not raise your taxes, nor support a tax increase.
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On the subject of Osama bin Laden... we will track him down. We will capture him. We will bring him to justice, and I will follow him to the gates of hell.
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Our society demands that women be treated equally and that we not discriminate against them.
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An American president does not lead the Free World by congratulating dictators on winning sham elections.
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Some men are much more self-sufficient than others.
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Political leaders are not and cannot reasonably be expected to be indifferent to the cruelest calumnies aimed at their character.
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Do not yield. Do not flinch. Stand up. Stand up with our President and fight. We're Americans. We're Americans, and we'll never surrender. They will.