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" Our national political campaigns never stop. We seem convinced that majorities exist to impose their will with few concessions and that minorities exist to prevent the party in power from doing anything important. That's not how we were meant to govern. "

John McCain

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" When you're not winning, you're losing. "

" 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. "

" But please know, whether you believe campaign contributions are speech or property, that I learned to love very dearly the right of free expression when I lived without that freedom for a while a long time ago. "

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

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

" Thank God for our form of government. The media won't let there be any cover-up. "

" Depriving the oppressed of a beacon of hope could lose us the world we have built and thrived in. It could cost our reputation in history as the nation distinct from all others in our achievements, our identity, and our enduring influence on mankind. Our values are central to all three. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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Traditions

" I don't doubt the sincerity of my Democratic friends. And they should not doubt ours. "

" America's greatest strength has always been its hopeful vision of human progress. "

" 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. "

" We cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves, from ourselves. "

" 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. "

" Personally, I liked Admiral Kelso very much. I believe that he served his country with distinction. "

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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. "

" I'm sick and tired of only being asked about everything that Donald Trump says or does. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 think that Fox News is a bit schizophrenic. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Our political differences, now matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding convictions. "