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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. "

John McCain

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" We are a country with a conscience. "

John McCain

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Country

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

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

" 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. "

" Countries, not just their armies, win wars. "

" Saddam Hussein is a risk-taking aggressor who has attacked four countries, used chemical weapons against his own people, professed a desire to harm the United States and its allies, and, even faced with the prospect of his regime's imminent destruction, has still refused to abide by Security Council demands that he disarm. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Civic participation over a lifetime, working in neighborhoods and communities and service of all kinds - military and civilian, full-time and part-time, national and international - will strengthen America's civic purpose. "

" 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. "

" War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality. "

" Sen. Obama comes from the old Chicago machine politics and has never taken on the special interests in his party on a major issue ever. "

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

" Russia's leaders, rich with oil wealth and corrupt with power, have rejected democratic ideals and the obligations of a responsible power. "

" 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. "

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

" I consider myself a realist. "

" If you want to preserve - I'm very serious now - if you want to preserve democracy as we know it, you have to have a free and many times adversarial press. And without it, I am afraid that we would lose so much of our individual liberties over time. That's how dictators get started. "

" We all know spending levels for defense and other urgent priorities have been woefully inadequate for years. But we haven't found the will to work together to adjust them. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

John McCain

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

" I am fully prepared to be commander in chief... I don't need on-the-job training. "

John McCain

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" I've always given presidents the benefit of the doubt on their nominees. "

" On Putin's order, corrupt apparatchiks and crony oligarchs rob Russians of their nation's wealth and resources. "

" Every day, people serve their neighbors and our nation in many different ways, from helping a child learn and easing the loneliness of those without a family to defending our freedom overseas. It is in this spirit of dedication to others and to our country that I believe service should be broadly and deeply encouraged. "