John McCain Quotes
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I was concerned about a couple of steps that the Russian government took in the last several days. One was reducing the energy supplies to Czechoslovakia.
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Some men are much more self-sufficient than others.
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I hate the gooks. I will hate them as long as I live.
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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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Politics abhors a vacuum, and Asian countries will gravitate towards China if U.S. influence is perceived as declining.
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For America, our interests are our values, and our values are our interests.
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I consider myself a realist.
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There is no greater vocation than to serve. But there is no greater purpose than to love. Live a life that does both, and you’ll be truly happy.
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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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I believe in prayer. I pray every night.
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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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Putin wants to restore the Russian empire. That's his ambition; he's stated it many times.
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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.
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Civic participation over a lifetime, working in neighborhoods and communities and service of all kinds - military and civilian, full-time and part-time, national and international - will strengthen America's civic purpose.
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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 United States must look beyond Mr. Putin. His regime may appear imposing, but it is rotting inside. His Russia is not a great power on par with America. It is a gas station run by a corrupt, autocratic regime.
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I think that it's important that we understand the importance of the Hispanic vote in America.
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We are paying a very heavy price for the mismanagement - that's the kindest word I can give you - of Donald Rumsfeld, of this war. The price is very, very heavy and I regret it enormously. I think that Donald Rumsfeld will go down in history as one of the worst secretaries of defense in history.
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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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We have drawn down to pre-surge levels.
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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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On Putin's order, corrupt apparatchiks and crony oligarchs rob Russians of their nation's wealth and resources.
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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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I'm not running for president to be somebody, but to do something; to do the hard but necessary things not the easy and needless things.