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" I admire the Islam. There's a lot of good principles in it. "
John McCain
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" The first role of government is to help people who are in crisis or need. That's why we have government. "
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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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" For much of my life, the Navy was the only world I knew. It is still the world I know best and love most. "
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" We are an important check on the powers of the executive. Our consent is necessary for the president to appoint jurists and powerful government officials and, in many respects, to conduct foreign policy. Whether we are of the same party, we are not the president's subordinates. We are his equal! "
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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 know that victims of torture will offer intentionally misleading information if they think their captors will believe it. "
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" The U.S. never lost a battle against North Vietnam, but it lost the war. "
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" 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. "
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More
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" The tea partiers are a great addition. The tea partiers have invigorated a base that has been dormant for a long period of time. We're going to have a broad array of different views in our Republican conference, and I think it might be more interesting than any I've been in in a long time. "
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Tea
Think
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Us
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" Personally, I liked Admiral Kelso very much. I believe that he served his country with distinction. "
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" Putin's Russia is our adversary and moral opposite. It is committed to the destruction of the post-war, rule-based world order built on American leadership and the primacy of our political and economic values. "
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World
Political
" 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. "
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Place
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Live
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Family
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" In the real world, as lived and experienced by real people, the demand for human rights and dignity, the longing for liberty and justice and opportunity, the hatred of oppression and corruption and cruelty is reality. "
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People
Justice
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Communication
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" Public life has many more privileges than hardships. "
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Hardships
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Than
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Chaos
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His
He