Quotes by John Mccain - Page 7

Both candidates in this election [2004] pledge to end this war and bring our troops home. The great difference - the great difference is that I intend to win it first.
John Mccain / United States Senator
Home
War
Winning
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We are Americans first, Americans last, Americans always... Let us argue our differences. But remember we are not enemies, but comrades in a war against a real enemy...
John Mccain / United States Senator
War
Differences
Real
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My preference would be to remain in the Senate, ... But you can't say I would refuse to serve in one of those (Cabinet) capacities. It's not the same as vice president.
John Mccain / United States Senator
President
Vices
Would Be
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Courage is the enforcing virtue, the one that makes possible all the other virtues common to exceptional leaders: honesty, integrity, confidence, compassion and humility
John Mccain / United States Senator
Leadership
Honesty
Humility
Integrity
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Reform, prosperity, and peace, these are major challenges to the United States of America. I don't think I need any on-the-job training. I'm ready to go at it right now.
John Mccain / United States Senator
Challenges
Thinking
Training
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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.
John Mccain / United States Senator
Anguish
Break
Cruelty
Human Strength
Imprisonment
Inhuman
Appalling
Watched
Defy
Enemies
Moment
Once More
Recover
Suffer
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Sooner or later, people are going to figure out if all you run is negative attack ads you don’t have much of a vision for the future or you’re not ready to articulate it.
John Mccain / United States Senator
Running
People
Vision
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I have campaigned for reform efforts all over the country, ... What happens in California has significant effect in states like mine that are nearby. It's just a reality.
John Mccain / United States Senator
California
Country
Reality
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I spent several years in a north Vietnamese prison camp in the dark, fed with scraps. Do you think I want to do that all over again as vice president of the United States?
John Mccain / United States Senator
Dark
Thinking
Years
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I guarantee you, as president of the United States, I know how to heal the wounds of war, I know how to deal with our adversaries, and I know how to deal with our friends.
John Mccain / United States Senator
War
Heal
President
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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.
John Mccain / United States Senator
Defense
Inadequate
Levels
Priorities
Spending
Urgent
Work Together Will
Adjust
Work Together
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Glory belongs to the act of being constant to something greater than yourself, to a cause, to your principles, to the people on whom you rely and who rely on you in return.
John Mccain / United States Senator
Causes
People
Return
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Even in this room full of proud Manhattan Democrats. I can't shake that feeling that some people here are pulling for me ... I'm delighted to see you here tonight, Hillary.
John Mccain / United States Senator
Feelings
People
Tonight
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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 / United States Senator
Credence
Putin
Accept
Agent
Award
Butcher
Frankly
Vladimir Putin
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The day that I can land at the airport in Baghdad and ride in an unarmed car down the highway to the Green Zone is the day that I'll start considering withdrawals from Iraq.
John Mccain / United States Senator
Airports
Iraq
Land
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There's a whole generation that's retiring. It is unconscionable that the average salary of a lawyer is $79,000 a year and the average salary of a teacher is $39,000 a year.
John Mccain / United States Senator
Teacher
Average
Years
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[While] the primary responsibility, as we all acknowledge, (falls) with the family, ... Our homes, our families, our children's minds are being flooded by a tide of violence.
John Mccain / United States Senator
Home
Children
Fall
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I've already heard from some military commanders who feel they've been undercut by the vice president of the United States, and there's a lot of justification for their view.
John Mccain / United States Senator
Military
President
Views
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It's very clear that Vladimir Putin has decided that he will eliminate his opponents and anyone who stands up for democracy and freedom. And he does so with relative impunity.
John Mccain / United States Senator
Democracy
Doe
Opponents
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Each Middle East country has their own unique kinds of challenges; but the fundamentals, the desire for democracy and freely elected governments is a common thread throughout.
John Mccain / United States Senator
Government
Country
Unique
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You may have noticed that Senator Obama’s supporters have been saying some pretty nasty things about Western Pennsylvania lately. And you know, I couldn’t agree with them more.
John Mccain / United States Senator
May
Nasty
Pennsylvania
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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.
John Mccain / United States Senator
Society
Collective Consciousness
Consciousness
Core
Dare
Embedded
Free Society
Political
Society Political Free
Free
Collective
Deeply
Few
Generally
Lunatics
Threaten
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No one can plausibly argue that ridding the world of Saddam Hussein will not significantly improve the stability of the region and the security of American interests and values.
John Mccain / United States Senator
Hussein
Saddam
Security
Stability
American Interests
Argue
Improve
Interests
Region
Saddam Hussein
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There is no doubt in my mind that Rudy Giuliani in the Senate will be a leader for the people of New York but also for the people of Arizona and the people all over this country.
John Mccain / United States Senator
New York
Country
People
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Our political differences, no matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding convictions.
John Mccain / United States Senator
Comparison
Consensus
Differences
Founding
Matter
Political
Convictions
Quite
Debated
Durable
Narrow
Remarkably
Sharply
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Our shared values define us more than our differences. And acknowledging those shared values can see us through our challenges today if we have the wisdom to trust in them again.
John Mccain / United States Senator
Trust
Challenges
Differences
Today
More
Acknowledging
Again
Those
Through
Define
See
Shared
Than
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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 / United States Senator
Conviction
Matter
Political Differences
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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.
John Mccain / United States Senator
Information
Range
Sufficient
Wide
Decisions
Studied
History Great Always
Great Leaders
Leaders
Opinions
Right Decisions
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How does it make sense to remove an option, to tell your enemy before you go into a conflict, that you will not exercise whatever options are necessary in order to achieve victory?
John Mccain / United States Senator
Enemy
Exercise
Order
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I believe that Congress will and must act before then to renew its objections to multiple and discriminatory taxes on the Internet, as well as to taxes that inhibit Internet access.
John Mccain / United States Senator
Believe
Congress
Internet Access
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[I find it] impossible [to imagine] that a nation which is grounded in Judaeo-Christian principles would somehow select someone [for President] who would repudiate those principles.
John Mccain / United States Senator
Christian
President
Scary
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I know the veterans. I know them well. And I know that they know that I'll take care of them. And I've been proud of their support and their recognition of my service to the veterans.
John Mccain / United States Senator
Care
Proud
Support
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I am proud to be a conservative ... but I am also proud throughout my life to have attracted the support and the love and affection of people from all over America and all parts of it.
John Mccain / United States Senator
America
People
Support
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So when someone, a veteran stands up and say, "Here are the facts on the VA." He [Donald Trump] says, "No, your facts are wrong." Turns out her facts are right and his facts are wrong.
John Mccain / United States Senator
Facts
Trump
Veteran
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The first thing we have to do is get spending under control in Washington. It's completely out of control. We Republicans came to power to change government, and government changed us.
John Mccain / United States Senator
Changed
Republican
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I think that Joe Biden is qualified in many respects. But I do point out that he's been wrong on many foreign policy and national security issues, which is supposed to be his strength.
John Mccain / United States Senator
Biden
Issues
Thinking
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But I'm still a work in progress. My mother calls me quite frequently with various critiques of my performance on TV and other public events. She's usually pretty severe with her comments.
John Mccain / United States Senator
Events
Mother
Progress
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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.
John Mccain / United States Senator
Barbara
Boxers
Defense
Senate
United States
Boxer
Partisan
Serve
United States Senate
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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.
John Mccain / United States Senator
Armed Services
Chairman
Safety
Security
Senate
Armed
World I Am Day
World Day I Am
Committee
Nation
Concerns
Confronted
Every Day
Rest
Services
Threats
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Today more people lose their seats in the Politburo in Havana than in the Congress of America, ... We need to have competitive races for the Legislature. ... We have to have a clash of ideas.
John Mccain / United States Senator
America
Ideas
Race
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If the United States had not intervened in Afghanistan, then obviously, we would have then allowed the attacks of 9/11 to go unanswered. I don't think most of Americans wanted that to happen.
John Mccain / United States Senator
Afghanistan
Thinking
United States
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When a major airline goes on a route that a new entrant has gone into, reduces fares, increases capacity, and then when the new entrant goes off, they leave the route, that's not competition.
John Mccain / United States Senator
Competition
Goes On
Gone
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America has the strongest, best-trained, best-led military force in the world, and we have failed them. Our military today is struggling in virtually every category that measures preparedness.
John Mccain / United States Senator
America
Military
Struggle
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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.
John Mccain / United States Senator
Adherence
Allies
Human Rights
Partners
Significant
Strict
Armed
Conflicts
Contributions
Expects
Joint
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There is no moral equivalent between that butcher and thug and KGB colonel Vladimir Putin and the United States of America, the country that Ronald Reagan used to call a shining city on a hill.
John Mccain / United States Senator
Cities
Country
Thug
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What was fascinating to me, is that she [Hillary Clinton] still cannot answer eloquently, answers about her e-mails, she still can't explains to me why she's not a third term of [Barack] Obama.
John Mccain / United States Senator
Answers
Clinton
Mail
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I would never want to see myself viewed as beating the drums of war, ... but I would rather live with that image than look into the mirror and see a member of Congress who failed to do his duty.
John Mccain / United States Senator
War
Looks
Mirrors
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It's pretty clear we have enough Guard people in the United States, but are they capable of handling our oversees commitments as well? We need to figure out how that impacts our ability in Iraq.
John Mccain / United States Senator
Commitment
Impact
Iraq
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I think it's important that the President of the United States consult as widely as possible with those who have different views so that he can - he or she - can make the most informed decisions.
John Mccain / United States Senator
President
States
United
United States
Views
Decisions
Possible
Consult
He Or She
Informed
Widely
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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.
John Mccain / United States Senator
Barack
Worried
Voted
American People
Barack Obama
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