John McCain Quotes

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John McCain

Profession : Politician

Birth : August 29, 1936

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

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

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We are a country with a conscience.

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It is foolish to view realism and idealism as incompatible or to consider our power and wealth as encumbered by the demands of justice, morality, and conscience.

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Depriving the oppressed of a beacon of hope could lose us the world we have built and thrived in. It could cost our reputation in history as the nation distinct from all others in our achievements, our identity, and our enduring influence on mankind. Our values are central to all three.

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I consider myself a realist.

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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.

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As he assumes the awesome responsibilities of the presidency, Donald Trump has inherited a world on fire and a U.S. military weakened by years of senseless budget cuts. I am encouraged that he recognizes these problems and has pledged to rebuild the military.

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

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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.

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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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I don't think Roger Ailes is ham-fisted.

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I think that Fox News is a bit schizophrenic.

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

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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.

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I think that it's important that we understand the importance of the Hispanic vote in America.

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

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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.

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

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

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