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" The problem... is that most members of Congress don't pay attention to what's going on. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" On Putin's order, Russia intervenes in Syria not to fight terrorists but to abet the war crimes of the Assad regime. Russian bombers deliberately target aid workers and hospitals. They threaten Syrian freedom fighters trained by the U.S. They are allied with our enemies in the Middle East and trying to weaken our friendships there. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 believe we should always put our country first. "

" 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. "

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

" I consider myself a realist. "

" We are a country with a conscience. "

" Whenever America sends its citizens into harm's way, it must do so with eyes wide open. "

" 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? "

" I believe that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein. I believe it's clear that he had every intention to acquire and use weapons of mass destruction. I can only imagine what Saddam Hussein would be doing with the wealth he would acquire with oil at $110 and $120 a barrel. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" China is the one, the only one, that can control Kim Jong Un, this crazy, fat kid that's running North Korea. "

" 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. "

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

" I understand the sensitivity of issues regarding women in the military. "

" I think ISIS can do terrible things. "

" I think it's important for Donald Trump to express his appreciation for veterans - not John McCain, but veterans who were incarcerated as prisoners of war. "

" I thought I'd be president of the United States. "

" 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. "

" 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. "