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" I'm as frustrated with the French, I think, as anyone, but look, there's going to be other challenges and there are going to be other issues. As long as there's a war on terrorism going on, we're all going to have to work together. "

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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. "

John McCain

World

People

Justice

" 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 tell the same stories all the time because I like them! "

" I am a Republican. I'm loyal to the party of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. And I believe that my party, in some ways, has strayed from those principles, particularly on the issue of fiscal discipline. "

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

" The problem... is that most members of Congress don't pay attention to what's going on. "

" I have watched men suffer the anguish of imprisonment, defy appalling human cruelty... break for a moment, then recover inhuman strength to defy their enemies once more. "

" 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. "

" I think that it's important that we understand the importance of the Hispanic vote in America. "

" I used to write books and plays in my mind, but I doubt that any of them would have been above the level of the cheapest dime novel. "

" 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.' "

" Every day, people serve their neighbors and our nation in many different ways, from helping a child learn and easing the loneliness of those without a family to defending our freedom overseas. It is in this spirit of dedication to others and to our country that I believe service should be broadly and deeply encouraged. "

" We need a free press. We must have it. It's vital. "

" We all know spending levels for defense and other urgent priorities have been woefully inadequate for years. But we haven't found the will to work together to adjust them. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" For America, our interests are our values, and our values are our interests. "

" I thought I'd be president of the United States. "

" 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. "

John McCain

Country

Traditions

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

" I don't think anybody is - no one could compare to Ronald Reagan, because he was the right man at the right time. "

" The United States expects a lot of its partners and allies, including joint patrolling, significant contributions to armed conflicts, and a strict adherence to human rights, among other things. "

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

" 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! "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Political leaders are not and cannot reasonably be expected to be indifferent to the cruelest calumnies aimed at their character. "