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" I think it's important for Donald Trump to express his appreciation for veterans - not John McCain, but veterans who were incarcerated as prisoners of war. "
John McCain
Who
Think
War
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" 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. "
John McCain
Safety
I Am
Day
" I'm sick and tired - and the American people are sick and tired - of the pork barrel spending. "
John McCain
Sick
Tired
People
" 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
" I think ISIS can do terrible things. "
John McCain
Think
I Think
Terrible
" On Putin's order, Russia intervenes in Syria not to fight terrorists but to abet the war crimes of the Assad regime. Russian bombers deliberately target aid workers and hospitals. They threaten Syrian freedom fighters trained by the U.S. They are allied with our enemies in the Middle East and trying to weaken our friendships there. "
John McCain
War
Freedom
Trying
" 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
" 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
" Our shared values define us more than our differences. And acknowledging those shared values can see us through our challenges today if we have the wisdom to trust in them again. "
John McCain
Challenges
Trust
Today
" Americans and Europeans share a common goal - to build an enduring peace based on freedom. "
John McCain
Common Goal
Freedom
Goal
" I understand the sensitivity of issues regarding women in the military. "
John McCain
Understand
Women
Military
" 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
" Russia's leaders, rich with oil wealth and corrupt with power, have rejected democratic ideals and the obligations of a responsible power. "
John McCain
Power
Corrupt
Oil
" 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
" Politics abhors a vacuum, and Asian countries will gravitate towards China if U.S. influence is perceived as declining. "
John McCain
Asian
China
Influence
" When you're not winning, you're losing. "
John McCain
Winning
You
Losing
" 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
" 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
" 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
" Only the most deluded of us could doubt the necessity of this war. "
John McCain
Doubt
Most
War
" 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
" A strong E.U., a strong NATO, and a true strategic partnership between them is profoundly in our interest. "
John McCain
Strong
Partnership
Our
" When Barack Obama won in 2008, in 2009 I voted for his team because I think that - that the American people wanted him to have his team. But don't think I wasn't worried about it. Really worried. "
John McCain
Won
American
Him
" 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. "
John McCain
Interesting
Tea
Think
" To argue against the global economy is like stating opposition to the weather - it continues whether you like it or not. "
John McCain
You
Against
Economy
" Some men are much more self-sufficient than others. "
John McCain
Than
Some
Others
" We are a country with a conscience. "
John McCain
Conscience
Country
" 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. "
John McCain
Business
Communication
Survival
" Political leaders are not and cannot reasonably be expected to be indifferent to the cruelest calumnies aimed at their character. "
John McCain
Character
Political
Leaders
" 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? "
John McCain
Lost
House
Defeat
" I know from personal experience that the abuse of prisoners will produce more bad than good intelligence. "
John McCain
Know
Intelligence
Good