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" 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. "

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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

Leaders

" In the real world, as lived and experienced by real people, the demand for human rights and dignity, the longing for liberty and justice and opportunity, the hatred of oppression and corruption and cruelty is reality. "

" 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. "

John McCain

Father

Think

" I don't think anybody is - no one could compare to Ronald Reagan, because he was the right man at the right time. "

" I've tried to say that I admire and respect Sen. Obama. He has accomplished great things, and he has motivated people, and so - and he loves his country, just as I do. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 consider myself a Christian. I attend church. My faith has sustained me in very difficult times. "

John McCain

Myself

Faith

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

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

" I believe we should always put our country first. "

" As a governor and senator, John Chafee set the standard for honesty and decency that the rest of us on our best days could only dream to emulate. "

John McCain

Decency

Rest

" You have to listen to people that have chosen the nominee of our Republican Party. I think it would be foolish to ignore them. "

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

" 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. "

" Politics abhors a vacuum, and Asian countries will gravitate towards China if U.S. influence is perceived as declining. "

" On Putin's order, Russian security services try to destabilize NATO allies the U.S. has sworn to defend. "

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

" 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! "

" I believe in prayer. I pray every night. "

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

" 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? "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I know from personal experience that the abuse of prisoners will produce more bad than good intelligence. "

" 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. "

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