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" 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. "

John McCain

Differences

Now

How

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

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" It is foolish to view realism and idealism as incompatible or to consider our power and wealth as encumbered by the demands of justice, morality, and conscience. "

" Only the most deluded of us could doubt the necessity of this war. "

" 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! "

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

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

John McCain

Country

Believe

" We must win in Iraq. If we withdraw, there will be chaos; there will be genocide; and they will follow us home. "

John McCain

Chaos

Home

" I think ISIS can do terrible things. "

" 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. "

" The first role of government is to help people who are in crisis or need. That's why we have government. "

" 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.' "

" I fell in love with my country when I was a prisoner in someone else's. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

John McCain

Kind

Award

" I get along with the Democrats, but please - I'm not their hero. "

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

" I know in war good people can feel obliged for good reasons to do things they would normally object to and recoil from. "

" The tea partiers are a great addition. The tea partiers have invigorated a base that has been dormant for a long period of time. We're going to have a broad array of different views in our Republican conference, and I think it might be more interesting than any I've been in in a long time. "

" I am frustrated and outraged by the slow nature of change at the VA. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" For much of my life, the Navy was the only world I knew. It is still the world I know best and love most. "

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

" 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. "

" I know that victims of torture will offer intentionally misleading information if they think their captors will believe it. "

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

John McCain

Ambition

His

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