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" I don't think Roger Ailes is ham-fisted. "
John McCain
Think
Roger
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" We are a country with a conscience. "
John McCain
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" I'm sick and tired of only being asked about everything that Donald Trump says or does. "
John McCain
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" Americans and Europeans share a common goal - to build an enduring peace based on freedom. "
John McCain
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" I consider myself a realist. "
John McCain
Consider
Myself
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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.' "
John McCain
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You
Done
" I'm sick and tired - and the American people are sick and tired - of the pork barrel spending. "
John McCain
Sick
Tired
People
" Americans want jobs. They want affordable health insurance. They want an education. "
John McCain
Health
Education
Want
" On Putin's order, corrupt apparatchiks and crony oligarchs rob Russians of their nation's wealth and resources. "
John McCain
Resources
Corrupt
Nation
" I believe that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein. I believe it's clear that he had every intention to acquire and use weapons of mass destruction. I can only imagine what Saddam Hussein would be doing with the wealth he would acquire with oil at $110 and $120 a barrel. "
John McCain
World
Wealth
Doing
" We need to listen to the views and respect the collective will of our democratic allies. When we believe that international action is necessary, whether military, economic, or diplomatic, we will try to persuade our friends that we are right. But we, in return, must also be willing to be persuaded by them. "
John McCain
Action
Respect
Need
" 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. "
John McCain
Sometimes
More
Imagine
" The truth is sometimes a hard pill to swallow. It sometimes causes us difficulties at home and abroad. It is sometimes used by our enemies in attempts to hurt us. But the American people are entitled to it, nonetheless. "
John McCain
Truth Is
People
Home
" What is most troubling about Mr. Putin's aggression in Crimea is that it reflects a growing disregard for America's credibility in the world. That has emboldened other aggressive actors - from Chinese nationalists to Al Qaeda terrorists and Iranian theocrats. "
John McCain
Aggression
Growing
America
" I understand the sensitivity of issues regarding women in the military. "
John McCain
Understand
Women
Military
" 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. "
John McCain
Choose
People
Human Rights
" The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness that only a few malcontents, lunatics generally, ever dare to threaten them. "
John McCain
Dare
Free
Political
" 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. "
John McCain
Leadership
World
Political
" Our great power does not mean we can do whatever we want whenever we want, nor should we assume we have all the wisdom and knowledge necessary to succeed. "
John McCain
Wisdom
Succeed
Power
" When you're not winning, you're losing. "
John McCain
Winning
You
Losing
" 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. "
John McCain
I Can
War
Still
" Our political differences, now matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding convictions. "
John McCain
Differences
Now
How
" It is foolish to view realism and idealism as incompatible or to consider our power and wealth as encumbered by the demands of justice, morality, and conscience. "
John McCain
Wealth
Justice
Morality
" Public life has many more privileges than hardships. "
John McCain
Hardships
More
Than
" I believe in evolution. But I also believe, when I hike the Grand Canyon and see it at sunset, that the hand of God is there also. "
John McCain
Sunset
See
Evolution
" I've always given presidents the benefit of the doubt on their nominees. "
John McCain
Always
Given
Doubt
" War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality. "
John McCain
War
Fraud
Beyond
" I think that Fox News is a bit schizophrenic. "
John McCain
I Think
News
Fox
" I've tried to say that I admire and respect Sen. Obama. He has accomplished great things, and he has motivated people, and so - and he loves his country, just as I do. "
John McCain
Great
Respect
Say
" 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. "
John McCain
Against
Desire
Own
" In 1987, I had my first opportunity to provide 'advice and consent' on a Supreme Court nominee. At that time, I stated that the qualifications essential for evaluating a nominee for the bench included 'integrity, character, legal competence and ability, experience, and philosophy and judicial temperament.' On that test, Elena Kagan fails. "
John McCain
Time
Character
Integrity