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" Political leaders are not and cannot reasonably be expected to be indifferent to the cruelest calumnies aimed at their character. "
John McCain
Character
Political
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" And, if we lost, then who win? Did Al Qaida win? When on the floor of the House of Representatives they cheer - they cheer - when they pass a withdrawal motion that is a certain date for surrender, what were they cheering? Surrender? Defeat? "
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" I'm proud of my record of reform, taking on my own party. "
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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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" 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. "
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" I think that Rand Paul represents a segment of the GOP, just like his father. And I think he is trying to expand that, intelligently, to make it larger. "
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" For Mr. Putin, vacillation invites aggression. His world is a brutish, cynical place, where power is worshiped, weakness is despised, and all rivalries are zero-sum. "
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" The United States expects a lot of its partners and allies, including joint patrolling, significant contributions to armed conflicts, and a strict adherence to human rights, among other things. "
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" The United States must look beyond Mr. Putin. His regime may appear imposing, but it is rotting inside. His Russia is not a great power on par with America. It is a gas station run by a corrupt, autocratic regime. "
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" As far as this business of solitary confinement goes, the most important thing for survival is communication with someone, even if it's only a wave or a wink, a tap on the wall, or to have a guy put his thumb up. It makes all the difference. "
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" Public life has many more privileges than hardships. "
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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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Give
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" 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. "
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Back
" I have certainly seen my share of the world as it really is and not how I wish it would be. "
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How
I Wish
" Sometimes it's important to watch what the president does rather than what he says. "
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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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China
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" We must win in Iraq. If we withdraw, there will be chaos; there will be genocide; and they will follow us home. "
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" Personally, I liked Admiral Kelso very much. I believe that he served his country with distinction. "
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" 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. "
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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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" Do not yield. Do not flinch. Stand up. Stand up with our President and fight. We're Americans. We're Americans, and we'll never surrender. They will. "
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" Whenever America sends its citizens into harm's way, it must do so with eyes wide open. "
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" I know from personal experience that the abuse of prisoners will produce more bad than good intelligence. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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