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" On Putin's order, corrupt apparatchiks and crony oligarchs rob Russians of their nation's wealth and resources. "
John McCain
Resources
Corrupt
Nation
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" I fell in love with my country when I was a prisoner in someone else's. "
John McCain
Prisoner
Love
Else
" 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. "
John McCain
Leadership
World
Political
" 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 know from personal experience that the abuse of prisoners will produce more bad than good intelligence. "
John McCain
Know
Intelligence
Good
" I've always given presidents the benefit of the doubt on their nominees. "
John McCain
Always
Given
Doubt
" 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. "
John McCain
Choose
People
Human Rights
" The first pork-barrel bill that crosses my desk, I'm going to veto it and make the authors of those pork-barrel items famous all over America. "
John McCain
Going
Famous
Desk
" 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
" The first role of government is to help people who are in crisis or need. That's why we have government. "
John McCain
People
Crisis
Government
" 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. "
John McCain
Together
Know
Work
" I believe in prayer. I pray every night. "
John McCain
Prayer
Believe
I Believe
" I don't doubt the sincerity of my Democratic friends. And they should not doubt ours. "
John McCain
Sincerity
Doubt
Democratic
" We cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves, from ourselves. "
John McCain
Cannot
Truth
Ourselves
" 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
" I consider myself a realist. "
John McCain
Consider
Myself
Realist
" 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. "
John McCain
Security
American
World
" I understand the sensitivity of issues regarding women in the military. "
John McCain
Understand
Women
Military
" 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
War
Good
People
" In 1987, I had my first opportunity to provide 'advice and consent' on a Supreme Court nominee. At that time, I stated that the qualifications essential for evaluating a nominee for the bench included 'integrity, character, legal competence and ability, experience, and philosophy and judicial temperament.' On that test, Elena Kagan fails. "
John McCain
Time
Character
Integrity
" 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
" I don't think Roger Ailes is ham-fisted. "
John McCain
Think
Roger
" I tell the same stories all the time because I like them! "
John McCain
Time
Because
Same
" 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
" 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. "
John McCain
Know
Need
American
" On 'don't ask, don't tell' I was always the same. I said we needed a complete review of the impact on morale and battle effectiveness of 'don't ask, don't tell' before we repeal it. That's my position now. Now they're trying to ram through a repeal without a - any kind of really realistic survey done. "
John McCain
Trying
Done
Battle
" 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
" For America, our interests are our values, and our values are our interests. "
John McCain
Our
Values
America
" When you're not winning, you're losing. "
John McCain
Winning
You
Losing
" The American people want us to stop spending. And so let's just give them some certainty. Let's extend the tax - the existing tax cuts. And then let's give some more tax breaks to small businesses and large. And then maybe the American people will have some confidence. "
John McCain
Small
American
Confidence
" I think it's important for the president of the United States to be aware of the intelligence information that we have. "
John McCain
Intelligence
Think
United