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" I'm sick and tired of only being asked about everything that Donald Trump says or does. "
John McCain
Sick
Donald Trump
Everything
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" I think it's important that the President of the United States consult as widely as possible with those who have different views so that he can - he or she - can make the most informed decisions. "
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She
" I know in war good people can feel obliged for good reasons to do things they would normally object to and recoil from. "
John McCain
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" 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. "
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American
Him
" 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. "
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Moment
" As he assumes the awesome responsibilities of the presidency, Donald Trump has inherited a world on fire and a U.S. military weakened by years of senseless budget cuts. I am encouraged that he recognizes these problems and has pledged to rebuild the military. "
John McCain
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World
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" 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
" I'm not against a border wall, OK, but go to China, and you'll see a border wall there. We need technology, we need drones, we need surveillance capabilities, and we need rapid-reaction capabilities. "
John McCain
Need
You
Technology
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
John McCain
Look
Power
Inside
" The president has promised greater border security. We can agree to that. A literal wall might not be the most effective means to that end, but we can provide the resources necessary to secure the border with smart and affordable measures. "
John McCain
Resources
Security
End
" On the issue of the gay marriage, I believe if people want to have private ceremonies, that's fine. I do not believe that gay marriages should be legal. "
John McCain
Believe
People
Marriage
" 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! "
John McCain
Party
Government
Important
" 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
" As a governor and senator, John Chafee set the standard for honesty and decency that the rest of us on our best days could only dream to emulate. "
John McCain
Decency
Us
Rest
" I am frustrated and outraged by the slow nature of change at the VA. "
John McCain
I Am
Nature
Change
" 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. "
John McCain
Believe
Discipline
I Am
" 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
" 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. "
John McCain
Used
Mind
Books
" 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
" War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality. "
John McCain
War
Fraud
Beyond
" 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
" 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. "
John McCain
Challenges
Think
Together
" 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
" 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
" Do not yield. Do not flinch. Stand up. Stand up with our President and fight. We're Americans. We're Americans, and we'll never surrender. They will. "
John McCain
Stand
Fight
Surrender
" I don't think Roger Ailes is ham-fisted. "
John McCain
Think
Roger
" 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
" China is the one, the only one, that can control Kim Jong Un, this crazy, fat kid that's running North Korea. "
John McCain
China
Kid
Running
" For much of my life, the Navy was the only world I knew. It is still the world I know best and love most. "
John McCain
Best
Know
Life