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" I know that victims of torture will offer intentionally misleading information if they think their captors will believe it. "
John McCain
Know
Believe
Think
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" Only the most deluded of us could doubt the necessity of this war. "
John McCain
Doubt
Most
War
" 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. "
John McCain
Cynical
Place
World
" 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
" We must win in Iraq. If we withdraw, there will be chaos; there will be genocide; and they will follow us home. "
John McCain
Follow
Chaos
Home
" When a president makes life and death decisions, he should draw strength and wisdom from broad and deep experience with the reasons for and the risks of committing our children to our defense. For no matter how many others are involved in the decision, the president is a lonely man in a dark room when the casualty reports come in. "
John McCain
Children
Man
Strength
" 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
" 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. "
John McCain
Time
I Am
Free
" On Putin's order, corrupt apparatchiks and crony oligarchs rob Russians of their nation's wealth and resources. "
John McCain
Resources
Corrupt
Nation
" 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. "
John McCain
Fear
Give
Real
" Putin wants to restore the Russian empire. That's his ambition; he's stated it many times. "
John McCain
Ambition
His
He
" 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
" I have certainly seen my share of the world as it really is and not how I wish it would be. "
John McCain
World
How
I Wish
" Personally, I liked Admiral Kelso very much. I believe that he served his country with distinction. "
John McCain
Country
Believe
He
" The U.S. never lost a battle against North Vietnam, but it lost the war. "
John McCain
Never
War
Vietnam
" 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. "
John McCain
Decisions
Information
Great
" Government should take care of those in America who can't care for themselves. That's a role of government. "
John McCain
Take Care
America
Care
" 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
" You raise taxes during an economic crisis time, as we did in - back in the time of Herbert Hoover, you send the country into a depression. "
John McCain
Country
You
Back
" I don't think Roger Ailes is ham-fisted. "
John McCain
Think
Roger
" The French repulsed wave after wave of frontal attacks at Dien Bien Phu. The 1968 Tet offensive against the U.S. was a military disaster that effectively destroyed the Viet Cong. But Giap persisted and prevailed. "
John McCain
Military
After
Against
" 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. "
John McCain
Today
Senate
Know
" 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. "
John McCain
Fight
Value
Two
" I don't doubt the sincerity of my Democratic friends. And they should not doubt ours. "
John McCain
Sincerity
Doubt
Democratic
" You have to listen to people that have chosen the nominee of our Republican Party. I think it would be foolish to ignore them. "
John McCain
You
People
Think
" I admire the Islam. There's a lot of good principles in it. "
John McCain
Principles
Admire
Good
" Sen. Obama comes from the old Chicago machine politics and has never taken on the special interests in his party on a major issue ever. "
John McCain
Chicago
Never
Party
" I'm sick and tired - and the American people are sick and tired - of the pork barrel spending. "
John McCain
Sick
Tired
People
" 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. "
John McCain
Doing
Important
Power
" I consider myself a realist. "
John McCain
Consider
Myself
Realist
" 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