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" No one can plausibly argue that ridding the world of Saddam Hussein will not significantly improve the stability of the region and the security of American interests and values. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" Giap was a master of logistics, but his reputation rests on more than that. His victories were achieved by a patient strategy that he and Ho Chi Minh were convinced would succeed - an unwavering resolve to suffer immense casualties and the near total destruction of their country to defeat any adversary, no matter how powerful. "

" We are a country with a conscience. "

John McCain

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" Putin wants to restore the Russian empire. That's his ambition; he's stated it many times. "

John McCain

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

" 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. "

" We know that Medicare's going broke in seven years, but we need to start over. That's what the American people want us to do. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Sometimes it's important to watch what the president does rather than what he says. "

" I understand the sensitivity of issues regarding women in the military. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

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" We cannot have a separate group of people that are military and a separate civilian society. Otherwise, it's dangerous to democracy. "

" Some men are much more self-sufficient than others. "

" Frankly, I would never accept an award from Vladimir Putin because then you kind of give some credence and credibility to this butcher, this KGB agent, which is what he is. "

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" 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.' "

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

" America didn't invent human rights. Those rights are common to all people: nations, cultures, and religions cannot choose to simply opt out of them. "

" 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. "

" I'm proud of my record of reform, taking on my own party. "

" 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. "

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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. "

" 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. "

" I admire the Islam. There's a lot of good principles in it. "

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