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" I fell in love with my country when I was a prisoner in someone else's. "

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" I know that victims of torture will offer intentionally misleading information if they think their captors will believe it. "

" 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. "

" Our national political campaigns never stop. We seem convinced that majorities exist to impose their will with few concessions and that minorities exist to prevent the party in power from doing anything important. That's not how we were meant to govern. "

" Personally, I liked Admiral Kelso very much. I believe that he served his country with distinction. "

" I have certainly seen my share of the world as it really is and not how I wish it would be. "

" Whenever America sends its citizens into harm's way, it must do so with eyes wide open. "

" On Putin's order, Russian security services try to destabilize NATO allies the U.S. has sworn to defend. "

" I believe we should always put our country first. "

" I think it's important for the president of the United States to be aware of the intelligence information that we have. "

" 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.' "

" Our society demands that women be treated equally and that we not discriminate against them. "

" My greatest fear is the Iranians acquire a nuclear weapon and give it to a terrorist organization. And there is a real threat of them doing that. "

" If you want to preserve - I'm very serious now - if you want to preserve democracy as we know it, you have to have a free and many times adversarial press. And without it, I am afraid that we would lose so much of our individual liberties over time. That's how dictators get started. "

" My record shows that I have put my country first, and I follow the philosophy and traditions of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan. "

" I think that Fox News is a bit schizophrenic. "

" 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. "

" Most great leaders in history that I've studied always need to get as wide a range of opinions as possible so that they can have sufficient information to make the right decisions. "

" A strong E.U., a strong NATO, and a true strategic partnership between them is profoundly in our interest. "

" 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. "

" War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality. "

" 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. "

" 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! "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I believe in prayer. I pray every night. "

" I am frustrated and outraged by the slow nature of change at the VA. "

" Our armed forces will fight for peace in Iraq, a peace built on more secure foundations than are found today in the Middle East. Even more important, they will fight for two human conditions of even greater value than peace: liberty and justice. "

" We cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves, from ourselves. "