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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.

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John McCain

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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.

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Working Together

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Round Up And Deport Two Million Aliens Who Committed Crimes.

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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.

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.

[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.

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

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.

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

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

All Interested Parties Must Be Willing To Make Significant Sacrifices.

Some Of Us Are More Favorably Disposed Than Others.

Reducing Military Presence Has Never In History Won A War.

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

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

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.

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.

There's Two Ways Of Working In Washington, ... One Is To Go Along And Get Along. The Other Is To Stand Up For What You Believe In.

[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.

This Kind Of Horror Has Become All Too Familiar To Us. As Parents, Cindy And I Offer Our Prayers To The Memory Of The Slain Children And Ask That God Ease The Pain Of Littleton's Suffering Families, ... The Students Of Columbine High School And Children Everywhere Have A Basic Right To Learn In An Environment Free Of Fear And Violence. We Must Redouble Our Efforts To See That This Is A Reality.

America Is The Greatest Force For Good In The History Of The World.

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