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I want to urge Americans, for as long as I can, to remember that this shared devotion to human rights is our truest heritage and our most important loyalty. (John McCain)
We did not learn Abu Ahmed's real name or alias as a result of waterboarding or any "enhanced interrogation technique" used on a detainee in U.S. custody. View quote
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To be connected to America's causes - liberty, equal justice, respect for the dignity of all people - brings happiness more sublime than life's fleeting pleasures. View quote
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I've suffered the deepest despair and experienced the highest exultation. I made a small place for myself in the story of America and the history of my times. View quote
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Each side should make its own case, but do so without making up its own facts. View quote
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The bell tolls for me. I knew it would. So I tried, as best I could, to stay a "part of the main." I hope those who mourn my passing, and even those who don't, will celebrate as I celebrate a happy life lived in imperfect service to a country made of ideals, whose continued service is the hope of the world. And I wish all of you great adventures, good company, and lives as lucky as mine. View quote
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My fellow Americans. No association ever mattered more to me. View quote
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Though it took a decade to find bin Laden, there is one consolation for his long evasion of justice: He lived long enough to witness what some are calling the Arab Spring, the complete repudiation of his violent ideology. View quote
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It was not torture or cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment of detainees that got us the major leads that ultimately enabled our intelligence community to find Osama bin Laden. View quote
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I would rather have a clean government than one where 'First Amendment rights' are being respected. View quote
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This is a moral debate. It is about who we are. (John McCain)
I would like to see us recover our sense that we are more alike than different. View quote
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We need each other. We need friends in the world, and they need us. The bell tolls for us, my friends, Humanity counts on us, and we ought to take measured pride in that. We have not been an island. We were ‘involved in mankind.‘. View quote
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Thank God for our form of government. The media won't let there be any cover-up. View quote
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I'm as frustrated with the French, I think, as anyone, but look, there's going to be other challenges and there are going to be other issues. As long as there's a war on terrorism going on, we're all going to have to work together. View quote
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I don't doubt the sincerity of my Democratic friends. And they should not doubt ours. View quote
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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. View quote
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Our armed forces will fight for peace in Iraq, a peace built on more secure foundations than are found today in the Middle East. Even more important, they will fight for two human conditions of even greater value than peace: liberty and justice. View quote
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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. View quote
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The problem... is that most members of Congress don't pay attention to what's going on. View quote
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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. (John McCain)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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.' View quote
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I am fully prepared to be commander in chief... I don't need on-the-job training. View quote
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