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" 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. "
John McCain
Capture
Hell
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" I'm sick and tired - and the American people are sick and tired - of the pork barrel spending. "
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" Americans and Europeans share a common goal - to build an enduring peace based on freedom. "
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" Politics abhors a vacuum, and Asian countries will gravitate towards China if U.S. influence is perceived as declining. "
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" On Putin's order, Russian security services try to destabilize NATO allies the U.S. has sworn to defend. "
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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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" 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. "
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" You cannot tell the enemy you're going to leave and expect the enemy to not - and expect to succeed. I mean, that's just a fundamental of warfare. "
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You
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Information
Great
" Our great power does not mean we can do whatever we want whenever we want, nor should we assume we have all the wisdom and knowledge necessary to succeed. "
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" 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. "
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" When a president makes life and death decisions, he should draw strength and wisdom from broad and deep experience with the reasons for and the risks of committing our children to our defense. For no matter how many others are involved in the decision, the president is a lonely man in a dark room when the casualty reports come in. "
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Man
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" 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.' "
John McCain
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You
Done
" The U.S. never lost a battle against North Vietnam, but it lost the war. "
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War
Vietnam
" I consider myself a Christian. I attend church. My faith has sustained me in very difficult times. "
John McCain
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Me
" Americans want jobs. They want affordable health insurance. They want an education. "
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Health
Education
Want
" 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
" I understand the sensitivity of issues regarding women in the military. "
John McCain
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Women
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" 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. "
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Growing
America
" 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. "
John McCain
Country
You
Back
" Countries, not just their armies, win wars. "
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Countries
Armies
" 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
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People
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" I guess my view is I believe less governance is best governance and that government should not do what the free enterprise and private enterprise and indidividual entrepreneurship and the states can do. "
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Free
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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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Most
She
" A strong E.U., a strong NATO, and a true strategic partnership between them is profoundly in our interest. "
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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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" Only the most deluded of us could doubt the necessity of this war. "
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Most
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" I tell the same stories all the time because I like them! "
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" Public life has many more privileges than hardships. "
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More
Than