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I Have Fought Against Excessive Spending My Entire Career. And I Got Plans To Reduce And Eliminate Unnecessary And Wasteful Spending And If There's Anybody Here Who Thinks There Aren't Agencies Of Government Where Spending Can Be Cut And Their Budgets Slashed They Have Not Spent A Lot Of Time In Washington.

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John McCain

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I Have Fought Against Excessive Spending My Entire Career. And I Got Plans To Reduce And Eliminate Unnecessary And Wasteful Spending And If There's Anybody Here Who Thinks There Aren't Agencies Of Government Where Spending Can Be Cut And Their Budgets Slashed They Have Not Spent A Lot Of Time In Washington.

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The Fact That We Did Not Give The Demonstrators In Iran Our Moral Support When A Young Woman Named Neda Bled To Death In The Streets Of Iran Will Go Down As One Of The Great Mistakes Of The 21st Century.

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I Spent Five And A Half Years In Prison. The Worst Part Was Coming Home And Finding Out Green Acres Had Been Cancelled. What The Hell Was I Fighting For?

Torture Doesn't Work.

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.

We Are Americans First, Americans Last, And Americans Always.

I Just Think That We Ought To Protect The Social Security Fund.

I Know What War's Like. I Know What Scene's Like.

I Think Conventional Wisdom Is That Time Is Not On Our Side. But There Are A Number Of Members Of Congress Who Have Primaries And When Those Primaries Are Done, They May Be More Inclined To Address The Issue Of Comprehensive Immigration Reform.

Iran Launches Monkey Into Space

Instead Of Giving The Effort The Level Of Attention Needed, The Air Force Has Wasted A Year Doing Very Little To End Our Reliance On Russian Rocket Engines, If The Air Force Is Unwilling To Do What Is Necessary To Meet The 2019 Deadline, They Are Going To Have To Figure Out How To Meet Our Space Launch Needs Without The Rd-180 (russian Engine).

I Will Follow Osama Bin Laden To The Gates Of Hell.

Osama Bin Laden

I Take A Backseat To No One In My Affection, Respect And Devotion To Veterans. And I Will Not Accept From Senator Obama, Who Did Not Feel It Was His Responsibility To Serve Our Country In Uniform, Any Lectures On My Regard For Those Who Did.

What If There's Another Terrorist Attack? I Cringe At The Ideas Of Our Enemies Watching This, Knowing Much Like The President We Have Now. You Can Do Anything You Want, You Can Jerk Us Around, You Can Harass Our Naval Ships The Way Iran Is Doing Right Now, And We're Not Going To Do Anything. We're Not Going To React.

I Believe Strongly That We Should Have Nominees To The United States Supreme Court Based On Their Qualifications Rather Than Any Litmus Test.

We Know For A Fact The Russians Tried To Change The Outcome Of Our Election, Attacking The Very Fundamental Of Democracy. We Know They Did That. We Need To Know How, We Need To Know Why, And Most Of All We Need To Know What To Do To Prevent This Kind Of Activity, Which They Continue To Carry On In Free Nations Around The World.

Americans Have Got To Understand That We Are Paying Present-day Retirees With The Taxes Paid By Young Workers In America Today. And That's A Disgrace. It's An Absolute Disgrace And It's Got To Be Fixed.

Now That We Have The Line-item Veto There Is No Excuse For Congress To Put Pork In And No Reason For The President Not To Line-item Veto It Out.

God May Have Mercy, But We Won't.

The Last Thing Members Of The Committee Want To Do Is Pass Legislation.

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.

Being Chairman Of The Senate Commerce Committee Is Like Being A Mosquito In A Nudist Colony.

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But I Also Want To Change The Dynamics Of This Debate, Which Has Kept Us Gridlocked Into Positions Which Caused People To Shoot At Abortion Clinics And Other Americans To View It As The Only Issue In American Politics, ... There Are Areas We Can Agree On. ... We Need To Work Together To Eliminate Abortion.

Let's Move Forward To Try To Address The Most Egregious And Outrageous Corrupting Aspect Of Campaigns In America Today And That Is The Incredible Inundation Of Soft Money And Its Pernicious Effects.

I'm Just Trying To Keep Things Normal Around The House, Because There's No Reason Why Things Shouldn't Be Normal.

Despite Occasional Policy Differences Between Us, I Have Long Respected Jim Jeffords' Integrity, And His Conscientious Service To His Constituents And To The Nation.

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.

Anybody Who Believes The Surge Has Not Succeeded, Militarily, Politically And In Most Other Ways, Frankly, Does Not Know The Facts On The Ground.

Let Me Say That No One Has Supported President Bush On Iraq More Than I Have.

Conservatives Came To Office To Reduce The Size Of Government And Enlarge The Sphere Of Free And Private Initiative. But Lately We Have Increased Government In Order To Stay In Office. And, Soon, If We Don't Remember Why We Were Elected We Will Have Lost Our Office Along With Our Principles, And Leave A Mountain Of Debt That Our Children's Grandchildren Will Suffer From Long After We Have Departed This Earth. Because, My Friends, Hypocrisy Is The Most Obvious Of Sins, And The People Will Punish It.

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.

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It's The Only Way That I See That It Can Be Done," Mccain Said. "obviously, It Has Failed In The Past, But I Also Notice There Is A Somewhat Changed Attitude On The Part Of The American People About This Issue.

I Was An Addict. That's Why, ... I Tell You, Addiction Is A Very Cunning Enemy.

We Have Many Advantages In The Fight Against Global Warming, But Time Is Not One Of Them. Instead Of Idly Debating The Precise Extent Of Global Warming, Or The Precise Timeline Of Global Warming, We Need To Deal With The Central Facts Of Rising Temperatures, Rising Waters, And All The Endless Troubles That Global Warming Will Bring. We Stand Warned By Serious And Credible Scientists Across The World That Time Is Short And The Dangers Are Great. The Most Relevant Question Now Is Whether Our Own Government Is Equal To The Challenge.

Gary Bauer Has Done Great Things, ... I Want To Promise You Again, You May Agree With Me, You May Disagree With Me, But I Will Do Great Things.

Parents Are Not The All-knowing, Ideal People We Would Like You To Think We Are. We've Made Wrong Choices Before, And Will Again, Like Everyone Else, .. But Our Mistakes Are Not The Measure Of Our Love For You. You Are That Measure, And How Well You Are Prepared To Make Better Choices Than We Have Made.

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Senator Obama Voted Against Justice Breyer And Justice Roberts On The Grounds That They Didn't Meet His Ideological Standards. That's Not The Way We Should Judge These Nominees. Elections Have Consequences.

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Men And Women Serving In The Military Deserve Better Than What They're Giving - What We're Giving Them. They Don't Know What They're Going To Be Doing Tomorrow.

Some Of Us Are More Favorably Disposed Than Others.

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I Don’t E-mail, I’ve Never Felt The Particular Need To E-mail.

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I Am The Son And Grandson Of Navy Admirals, And I Was Born Into America's Service. It Wasn't Until I Was Deprived Of Her Company That I Fell In Love With America.

After All This Time And All This, Quote, "experience," How Is She [hillary Clinton] Not Better At This [military]?

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I Say To Our Enemies: We Are Coming. God May Have Mercy On You, But We Won't

America's Image Throughout The World Is Very Bad.

Major League Baseball Players And Owners Should Meet Immediately To Enact The Standards That Apply To The Minor Leagues, And If They Don't, I Will Have To Introduce Legislation That Says Professional Sports Will Have Minimum Standards For Testing. I'll Give Them Until January, And Then I'll Introduce Legislation.

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I Think I Am Becoming Incapable Of Being Too Surprised. But It Just Makes Me Sad And Sick.

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Certify Border Is Secure; Only Then Allow Guest Workers.

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.

Everybody Says That They're Against The Special Interests. I'm The Only One The Special Interests Don't Give Any Money To.

When We're Talking About A Trillion Dollars Of Taxpayer Money, "trust Me" Just Isn't Good Enough.

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...

In The 2012 Election, Obamacare, As It's Called, And I'll Be More Polite - The Aca ...was A Major Issue In The Campaign. I Campaigned All Over America For Two Months, Everywhere I Could. And In Every Single Campaign Rally I Said, 'we Have To Repeal And Replace Obamacare.' Well, The People Spoke. They Spoke, Much To My Dismay, But They Spoke. And They Reelected The President Of The United States.

I Looked Into Mr. Putin's Eyes, And I Saw Three Letters, A "k," A "g," And A "b."

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.

We Cannot Forever Hide The Truth About Ourselves From Ourselves.

What I Don't Know Is What The Unexpected Might Be.

The Issue Of Economics Is Not Something I've Understood As Well As I Should. I've Got Greenspan's Book.

The Benefit Of An Open Town Hall Meeting Is One That You Get To Hear A Lot Of Different Views, And Two It Has Credibility.

I Observed A Thousand Acts Of Courage, Compassion And Love [as A Pow] And I Will Always Treasure That Memory Above All Others.

There's Going To Be Other Wars. I'm Sorry To Tell You, There's Going To Be Other Wars. We Will Never Surrender, But There Will Be Other Wars.

[several Candidates Talked Of Problems With The Federal Medicare System, Particularly Concerns About Whether It Would Cover Prescription Drug Costs In The Future.] We're Asking Senior Citizens To Make A Choice Between Their Health And Their Income, ... Medicare Is Probably The Most Difficult Challenge We Face In The Next Century, Because It Has A Lot To Do With Other Things Besides Money.

I Think [social Media] Is Fundamentally Restructuring The Whole Nature Of Information And How It's Expressed In America.

As Long As Americans Are Not Being Injured Or Harmed Or Wounded Or Killed, It's Fine With Me And I Hope It Would Be Fine With You If We Maintain A Presence In A Very Volatile Part Of The World Where Al Qaeda Is Training, Recruiting, Equipping And Motivating People Every Single Day.

So Ahmadinejad Wants To Be The First Iranian In Space - Wasn't He There Just Last Week? 'iran Launches Monkey Into Space.'

Only A Fool Or A Fraud Talks Tough Or Romantically About War.

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.

I Think It's A Very Legitimate Aspect Of American Life To Criticize And To Disagree And To Debate. But I Want To Say I Think It's A Lie To Say That The President Lied To The American People. I Sat On The Robb-silverman Commission. I Saw Many, Many Analysts That Came Before That Committee. I Asked Every One Of Them-i Said, 'did-were You Ever Pressured Politically Or Any Other Way To Change Your Analysis Of The Situation As You Saw?' Every One Of Them Said No.

And The People Who Live In The Southern Part Of My State Do Not Have A Secure Environment. To Wit, There Are Signs That The Government Put Up That Say, "warning. You Are In A Drug Smuggling Area And A Human Smuggling Area."

...sound Foreign Policy Is More Than Arms Control, Foreign Aid And Paying (united Nations) Dues.

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.

I, 100 Percent Don't Think That's Where The American People At, Because When There's Viral Pictures As A Baby Is In Aleppo With, You Know, Rubble All Over Them Going Viral, And Then There Are Celebrities Tweeting Why Haven't We Done Nothing About This? And Like, Oh, There Are Actually Many People For Years Who've Been Trying To Send Aid Then And This President Won't Let Us.

I Want To Emphasis Again, Governor (thomas) Kean And Congressman (lee) Hamilton Pointed Out That Congressional Oversight Also Was A Major Contributor To Our Failures Prior To 9/11 And That Has To Be Fixed As Well.

Our Nation Has Both An Obligation And Self-interest In Facing Head-on The Serious Environmental, Economic And National Security Threat Posed By Global Warming.

I Can Only Express Satisfaction That The Dear Leader Is Joining The Likes Of Gaddafi, Bin Laden, Hitler, And Stalin In A Warm Corner Of Hell.

The United States Of American Business Pays The Second-highest Business Taxes In The World, 35 Percent. Ireland Pays 11 Percent. Now, If You're A Business Person, And You Can Locate Any Place In The World, Then, Obviously, If You Go To The Country Where It's 11 Percent Tax Versus 35 Percent, You're Going To Be Able To Create Jobs, Increase Your Business, Make More Investment, Et Cetera. I Want To Cut That Business Tax. I Want To Cut It So That Businesses Will Remain In The United States Of America And Create Jobs.

At No Time Have I Ever Done Anything That Would Betray The Public Trust.

I Don't Think It's Bribery; I Think It's Extortion. Bribery, You Know, Is When The Person That's Giving The Money Does It Voluntarily. What It Is In Washington Is Extortion Because They All Ask For The Money.

Sen. Obama Is A Decent Person And A Person You Don't Have To Be Scared Of As President Of The United States.

What Evidence Do We Have That States Are Incapable Of Further Exercising An Authority They Have Exercised Successfully For Over 200 Years?

Does It Make All The Difference In The World? No. But There's A Great Deal Of Symbolism Associated With Whether We're Going To Add $24 Billion To The Debt In Unwanted And Unnecessary Pork-barrel Projects.

Bin Laden’s Death And The Debate Over Torture.

Presidential Ambition Is A Disease That Can Only Be Cured By Embalming Fluid.

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.

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.

I Will Veto Every Single Beer, Um, Bill With Earmarks.

I Think We Also Ought To Prepare The American Public, By Way Of Informing Them, That Saddam Hussein Has These Weapons, Continues To Attempt To Improve Their Capability, And Would Not Be Reluctant To Export Them To Other Countries. So He Presents A Clear And Present Danger.

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.

We Were Pleased To Hear The President State His Firm Commitment That He Will Do Whatever Is Necessary To Accomplish This Important Goal.

I Watch Sports All The Time. My Wife Cindy Says I Would Watch The Thumb-suckers Play The Bed-wetters. I Watch All Sports And I Enjoy All Sports. It's Been Great Fun In My Life And A Great Diversion.

If You Talk To These Young Men And Women Who Are Fighting, They'll Tell You That They Think It's A Worthwhile Cause, And They're Fighting For Freedom, And They-well, They-all I'm Saying-the Overwhelming Majority Of Them Do.

I Have Fought Against Excessive Spending My Entire Career. And I Got Plans To Reduce And Eliminate Unnecessary And Wasteful Spending And If There's Anybody Here Who Thinks There Aren't Agencies Of Government Where Spending Can Be Cut And Their Budgets Slashed They Have Not Spent A Lot Of Time In Washington.

I Am Very Much In Favor Of Tax Cuts.

Keep Moving If You Love Life, And Keep Your Troubles Well Behind You.

Sarah Palin Knows More About Energy Than Probably Anyone Else In The United States Of America.

A Man I Admire And Respect - Congressman John Lewis, An American Hero, Made Allegations That Sarah Palin And I Were Somehow Associated With The Worst Chapter In American History, Segregation, Deaths Of Children In Church Bombings, George Wallace. That, To Me, Was So Hurtful.

[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.

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.

Many Good People Mistake Their Reputation For Their Character. It Is A Mistake I Have Made Many, Many Times.

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He Was A Superb Military Officer But He Was Also An Extraordinarily Gifted Politician. That He Was An Unusually Open, Honest And No-nonsense Politician Did Not Make Him Unsuited For The Profession, Only Uncommon. In Uniform And In Politics Barry's Purpose Was Always The Defense Of Freedom. And Nobody Before Or Since Managed The Task More Ably Or More Colorfully Than Barry Goldwater.

We Make The Future Better Than The Past. We Don't Hide From History. We Make History.

I Love The Veterans. And I'll Take Care Of Them. And They Know That I'll Take Care Of Them. And That's Going To Be My Job. But, Also, I Have The Ability, And The Knowledge, And The Background To Make The Right Judgments, To Keep America Safe And Secure.

The Question Is Not Whether You Would Like To Be President Or Not. The Question Is: Do You Think You Can Win And Do You Want To Run? And None Of Those Are Clear To Me.

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.

There Is Always An Element Of Realpolitik That Has To Be Present In The Conduct Of Any Nation's National Security Affairs. At The Same Time, We Have To Also Have A Balance Between Realpolitik And Wilsonian Principles Of Freedom And Democracy And Human Rights. And Maintaining That Balance Is The Greatest Challenge That We In The West, Including The Federal Republic Of Germany, Have To Face Because It's Many Times A Very Difficult Decision-making Process.

Courage Is The Enforcing Virtue, The One That Makes Possible All The Other Virtues Common To Exceptional Leaders: Honesty, Integrity, Confidence, Compassion And Humility

I Admire Obama, And I Like Him. I Think He Has A Great Deal Of Talent. He Should Be Applauded For His Eloquence And For His Ability To Motivate Millions.

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I 'don't See How It Matters' That I Don't Know The Price Of Gas.

I Don't Use Coarse Language Very Often. I Have A Larger Vocabulary Than That.

But Certainly In The Short Term, Or Even The Long Term, I Would Not Support Repeal Of Roe V. Wade, Which Would Then Force X Number Of Women In America To [undergo] Illegal And Dangerous Operations.

In Our Blessed And Mostly Peaceful Society We're Not As Familiar With Courage As We Once Were. We Ascribe The Virtue To All Manner Of Endeavors That Only Really Require Skill, Fortitude And A Little Daring, The Qualities Pat Tillman Showed On The Football Field. Pat's Best Service To His Country Was To Remind Us All What Courage Really Looks Like, And That The Purpose Of All Good Courage Is Love.

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 Think That It Has To Be A Very Humane Approach To This Issue, And We Have To Come Up With Solutions To It. But We Also Have To Do Something About The Drugs That Are Coming Across Our Southern Border That Are Killing Our Kids... I Think There Are Some People Who Want To Leave This Country And Return To The Country They Came From, But Obviously It Requires A Broader Solution That That, And We All Know That.

To Equate Vladimir Putin And The United States Of America, As Donald Trump Was Asked, You Know, I Guess It Was Bill O'reilly Who Said, "but Putin Is A Killer." And He Basically Said, "so Are We." That Moral Equivalency Is A Contradiction Of Everything The United States Has Ever Stood For In The 20th And 21st Century.

We Should Exhibit No Self Doubt To Our Friends, ... Credibility Is A Strategic Asset.

The Smartest Person In The United States Senate, And He Knows It, Is John Sununu. Thank God He Had His Mother's Temperament.

Subjecting Prisoners To Abuse Leads To Bad Intelligence, Because Under Torture A Detainee Will Tell His Interrogator Anything To Make The Pain Stop. Second, Mistreatment Of Our Prisoners Endangers U.s. Troops Who Might Be Captured By The Enemy – If Not In This War, Then In The Next. And Third, Prisoner Abuses Exact On Us A Terrible Toll In The War Of Ideas, Because Inevitably These Abuses Become Public.

In The Washington Soft Money Game, Big Business And Big Labor Are Accomplices Working Together To Protect The Mushy Middle Of Big Government, With Plenty Of Special Interest Plums: Big Unions Get Big Spending And Big Business Gets Corporate Welfare And Special Tax Breaks - All At The Expense Of Average Americans.

I Have The Utmost Confidence In General Mattis, General Flynn, General Kelly, Dan Coates. I Couldn't Have Picked A Better Team. And So I'm Confident That Donald Trump Will Listen To Them And Be Guided By Them.

Right Now There’s Kind Of A Generational Change. Young Americans Do Not Trust This Government. Without Trusting Government You Can't Do A Lot Of Things.

[hillary Clinton] Was Saying, "we Never Going To Do Anything In Iraq, We're Not Going To Do Anything In Syria." Enemies, Do Whatever You Want. Continue The Largest Humanitarian Crisis, 7 Million People Displaced Refugees. Do All This. We're Not Going To Do Anything. That Is The Type Of Stuff That Is Been Happening For The Past 7 1/2 Years Under President [barack] Obama.

I Disagree With What The Majority Of The American People Want.

...(w)e Lose When By Official Policy Or By Official Negligence We Allow, Confuse Or Encourage Our Soldiers To Forget . . . That Which Is Our Greatest Strength: That We Are Different And Better Than Our Enemies.

I Think My Major Challenge, Very Frankly, Is To Maintain The Traction, ... I've Seen Many Campaigns Here In The State Of New Hampshire Look Good For A While, And Then The Air Comes Out Of The Balloon.

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.

Because The People Of New Hampshire Take Their Responsibilities As Citizens Of The Republic Seriously, They Keep It Interesting For Candidates Who, Believe It Or Not, Can Get A Little Tired Of The Mannered, Predictable, And Unimaginative Qualities That Typically Afflict Modern Political Campaigns.

Neither Party Should Be Defined By Pandering To The Outer Reaches Of American Politics And The Agents Of Intolerance, Whether They Be Louis Farrakhan And Al Sharpton On The Left, Or Pat Robertson Or Jerry Falwell On The Right.

It Seems To Me That President Carter Has Earned His Place As If Not The Worst President In History, The Worst President Of The 20th Century.

The Iranians Have A Lousy Government, So Therefore Their Economy Is Lousy, Even Though They Have Significant Oil Revenues. So I Am Convinced That Together, We Can, With The French, With The British, With The Germans And Other Countries, Democracies Around The World, We Can Affect Iranian Behavior. But Have No Doubt, But Have No Doubt That The Iranians Continue On The Path To The Acquisition Of A Nuclear Weapon. And It Is A Threat Not Only In This Region But Around The World.

I Think The American People Should Know There's Already Strong Influences Toward Another Deployment Of American Troops In An Open-ended Commitment.

There Are Neighborhoods In Baghdad Where You And I Could Walk Through Those Neighborhoods Today.

As You Know, There Are Al Qaeda Operatives That Are Taken Back Into Iran, Given Training As Leaders, And They’re Moving Back Into Iraq.

I Have Known Trent Lott For 20 Years, ... I Don't Believe He's Racist. But He Must Proactively Send A Message To His Colleagues In The Senate And The American People That He Is Absolutely Opposed To Any Segregation In Any Form And Racism In Any Form And Discrimination In Any Form.

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.

I'm A Proud Reagan Conservative.

Washington Is A Hollywood For Ugly People. Hollywood Is A Washington For The Simpleminded.

I Didn't Decide To Run For President To Start A National Crusade For The Political Reforms I Believed In, Or To Run A Campaign As If It Were Some Grand Act Of Patriotism. In Truth, I Wanted To Be President Because It Had Become My Ambition To Be President.

I Think They Put Some Lipstick On A Pig, But It's Still A Pig.

Reducing Military Presence Has Never In History Won A War.

Katrina Did Not Declare A Truce On Iraq.

As Part Of My Misspent Youth, I Spent Too Much Time In The Sun, And Every Few Months, I Have To Go And Have Some Basal Cell Removed From My Old Craggy Features.

Improve Human Intelligence To Get Osama Bin Laden.

Osama Bin Laden

We've Got To Start Also Holding People Accountable, And We've Got To Reward People Who Succeed. But Somehow In Washington Today - And I'm Afraid On Wall Street - Greed Is Rewarded, Excess Is Rewarded, And Corruption - Or Certainly Failure To Carry Out Our Responsibility Is Rewarded.

It's Impossible To Imagine The Democratic Party Seeking A Pro-life, Free-trading, Non-protectionist Deficit Hawk.

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.

We Are Taught To Understand, Correctly, That Courage Is Not The Absence Of Fear, But The Capacity For Action Despite Our Fears.

For Decades We Have Been Living Lives Of Abundance, With Little Regard For Our Natural Resources Or Global Health. But We Are Now Facing Hard Choices In Our Energy Policy. Future Generations - My Children And Grandchildren, Along With Yours - Will Have To Live With The Decisions We Make Today. And So It Is Time For Us To Make Some Tough And - Hopefully - Smart Choices Regarding Our Energy Use And Production Before It Is Too Late.

I Don't Know How You Defeat An Insurgency Unless You Have Some Handle On The Number Of People That You Are Facing.

My Patriotism And My Conscience Required Me To Support It And To Engage In The Debate Over Whether And How To Fight It.

Americans Want To Win; Bin Laden Thinks He's Winning Now.

Cindy And I Are Adoptive Parents. We Know What A Treasure And Joy It Is To Have An Adopted Child In Our Lives.

I Think Where [donald Trump] Loses Most Hawkish Republicans Is When He Talking About How Much He Likes [vladimir] Putin. That Should Make Any Person Who Believe In The American Exceptionalism, Incredibly Uncomfortable.

I've Seen Enough Killing In My Life. I Know How Precious Human Life Is And I Don't Need A Lecture From You.

Just By Coincidence, Senator Teddy Kennedy And I, In The Last Couple Of Days, After Several Months Of Negotiations, Have Reached An Agreement For An Immigration Proposal That We Will Be Putting Out Next Week, ... Our Proposal Is Along The Lines Of Make Them Pay A Fine Of A Couple Thousand Dollars, Make Them Work For Three Years, And After Three Years They Can Get In The Back Of The Line For A Green Card And Then Eventually Become Citizens.

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.

As Part Of Social Security Reform, I Believe That Private Savings Accounts Are A Part Of It - Along The Lines That President Bush Proposed.

It's Not Social Issues I Care About.

I Think We Need To Address Greenhouse Gas Emissions. But I Try To Get Involved In Issues Where I See A Legislative Result... So I Just Leave The Issue Alone Because I Don't See A Way Through It, And There Are Certain Fundamentals, For Example Nuke Power, That People On The Left Will Never Agree With Me On. So Why Should I Waste My Time When I Know The People On The Left Are Going To Reject Nuclear Power?

I'm Going To Be Honest: I Know A Lot Less About Economics Than I Do About Military And Foreign Policy Issues. I Still Need To Be Educated.

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.

Russia Has Now Become A Nation Fueled By Petro-dollars That Is Basically A Kgb Apparatchik-run Government.

And We Are In A Strange Conundrum. You Can Kill An American Citizen Overseas. But According To This Administration, If You Capture Him In The United States, They've Got To Be Read Their Miranda Rights.

Do We Really Want Another Politician In The White House America Can't Trust?

The Problem Is That Most Members Of Congress Don’t Pay Attention To What’s Going On.

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.

I Strongly Support The Second Amendment And I Believe The Second Amendment Ought To Be Preserved - Which Means No Gun Control.

I Do Believe My View Has Evolved.

But We Have A War Of Ideals And Ideas, And That Is To Sell Democracy.

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