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" America didn't invent human rights. Those rights are common to all people: nations, cultures, and religions cannot choose to simply opt out of them. "
Choose
People
Human Rights
" Americans and Europeans share a common goal - to build an enduring peace based on freedom. "
Common Goal
Freedom
Goal
" Americans want jobs. They want affordable health insurance. They want an education. "
Health
Education
Want
" America's greatest strength has always been its hopeful vision of human progress. "
America
Strength
Vision
" And, if we lost, then who win? Did Al Qaida win? When on the floor of the House of Representatives they cheer - they cheer - when they pass a withdrawal motion that is a certain date for surrender, what were they cheering? Surrender? Defeat? "
Lost
House
Defeat
" And the people who live in the southern part of my state do not have a secure environment. To wit, there are signs that the government put up that say, 'Warning. You are in a drug smuggling area and a human smuggling area.' "
People
Environment
Live
" As a governor and senator, John Chafee set the standard for honesty and decency that the rest of us on our best days could only dream to emulate. "
Decency
Us
Rest
" As chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, I am confronted every day with the security concerns and threats to our own nation's safety, as well as threats to the rest of the world. "
Safety
I Am
Day
" As far as this business of solitary confinement goes, the most important thing for survival is communication with someone, even if it's only a wave or a wink, a tap on the wall, or to have a guy put his thumb up. It makes all the difference. "
Business
Communication
Survival
" As he assumes the awesome responsibilities of the presidency, Donald Trump has inherited a world on fire and a U.S. military weakened by years of senseless budget cuts. I am encouraged that he recognizes these problems and has pledged to rebuild the military. "
Problems
World
Budget
" A strong E.U., a strong NATO, and a true strategic partnership between them is profoundly in our interest. "
Strong
Partnership
Our
" Barbara Boxer is the most bitterly partisan, most anti-defense senator in the United States Senate today. I know that because I've had the unpleasant experience of having to serve with her. "
Today
Senate
Know
" But please know, whether you believe campaign contributions are speech or property, that I learned to love very dearly the right of free expression when I lived without that freedom for a while a long time ago. "
Free
Believe
Time
" But we should be mindful as we argue about our differences that so much more unites than divides us. We should also note that our differences, when compared with those in many, if not most, other countries, are smaller than we sometimes imagine them to be. "
Sometimes
More
Imagine
" China is the one, the only one, that can control Kim Jong Un, this crazy, fat kid that's running North Korea. "
China
Kid
Running
" 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. "
Purpose
Service
Participation
" Countries, not just their armies, win wars. "
Win
Countries
Armies
" 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. "
Hope
Values
Identity
" 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. "
Stand
Fight
Surrender
" During one period while I was in solitary, I memorized the names of all 335 of the men who were then prisoners of war in North Vietnam. I can still remember them. "
I Can
War
Still
" Every day, people serve their neighbors and our nation in many different ways, from helping a child learn and easing the loneliness of those without a family to defending our freedom overseas. It is in this spirit of dedication to others and to our country that I believe service should be broadly and deeply encouraged. "
Loneliness
Family
Service
" For America, our interests are our values, and our values are our interests. "
Our
Values
America
" For Mr. Putin, vacillation invites aggression. His world is a brutish, cynical place, where power is worshiped, weakness is despised, and all rivalries are zero-sum. "
Cynical
Place
World
" For much of my life, the Navy was the only world I knew. It is still the world I know best and love most. "
Best
Know
Life
" Frankly, I would never accept an award from Vladimir Putin because then you kind of give some credence and credibility to this butcher, this KGB agent, which is what he is. "
Kind
Award
Accept
" Giap was a master of logistics, but his reputation rests on more than that. His victories were achieved by a patient strategy that he and Ho Chi Minh were convinced would succeed - an unwavering resolve to suffer immense casualties and the near total destruction of their country to defeat any adversary, no matter how powerful. "
Strategy
Reputation
Succeed
" Government should take care of those in America who can't care for themselves. That's a role of government. "
Take Care
America
Care
" I admire the Islam. There's a lot of good principles in it. "
Principles
Admire
Good
" 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. "
Believe
Discipline
I Am
" I am frustrated and outraged by the slow nature of change at the VA. "
I Am
Nature
Change
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