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Immigration And Border Security Remain Critical Issues That I Am Committed To Addressing This Year. The Good News Is That Illegal Immigration Is At An All-time Low, Making Now The Time To Dedicate The Needed Technology And Resources To Finally Secure The Border For Good. As Border Security Improves, I Look Forward To Working In A Bipartisan Manner To Fix Our Broken Immigration System And Address The Millions Of People Living In The United States Outside Of Legal Status.

-John McCain

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Immigration And Border Security

John McCain

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Immigration And Border Security Remain Critical Issues That I Am Committed To Addressing This Year. The Good News Is That Illegal Immigration Is At An All-time Low, Making Now The Time To Dedicate The Needed Technology And Resources To Finally Secure The Border For Good. As Border Security Improves, I Look Forward To Working In A Bipartisan Manner To Fix Our Broken Immigration System And Address The Millions Of People Living In The United States Outside Of Legal Status.

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

I Don't Think We Are Comforted By The Fact That We Were Told There Would Never Be A Case Of Ebola In The United States And Obviously That's Not Correct.

War Is Awful. Nothing, Not The Valor With Which It Is Fought Nor The Nobility Of The Cause It Serves, Can Glorify War. War Is Wretched Beyond Description And Only A Fool Or A Fraud Could Sentimentalize Its Cruel Reality. Whatever Is Won In War, It Is Loss The Veteran Remembers.

Americans Have Gotten To Know Sarah Palin. They Know That She's A Role Model To Women And Other - And Reformers All Over America. She's A Reformer.

I Don't Doubt The Sincerity Of My Democratic Friends. And They Should Not Doubt Ours.

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.

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).

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.

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.

We Send Cruise Missiles And Then We Think Everything's All Right Or We Try To Bring Them To Trial. My Friends, This Time They've Gone Too Far. This Time We're Serious. This Time We Won't Quit Until They Are Gone, Completely Gone From The Face Of The Earth

That's Joe Biden Right There - Unbowed, Unbroken And Unable To Stop Talking.

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

Tolerance Of Dissent Is The Hallmark Of A Mature Party, And It Is Well Past Time For The Republican Party To Grow Up.

Bashar Assad Is A Major Cause Of The Refugees Which Are Now Flooding Europe And Causing Such Consternation In The United States.

The Us Does Not Involve Itself In What Is Happening In The World's Largest Democracy, Nor Does It Intend To Do So.

Suppose That Climate Change Is Not Real And All We Do Is Adopt Green Technologies, Which Our Economy And Our Technology Is Perfectly Capable Of. Then All We've Done Is Given Our Kids A Cleaner World.

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

Every Time There's Been An Out-of-bounds Remark Made By A Republican, No Matter Where They Are, I Have Repudiated Them.

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.

I Believe In Evolution. But I Also Believe, When I Hike The Grand Canyon And See It At Sunset, That The Hand Of God Is There Also.

Nothing In Life Is More Liberating Than To Fight For A Cause Larger Than Yourself, Something That Encompasses You But Is Not Defined By Your Existence Alone.

We Can't Cut And Run.

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

It Is Because I Owe America More Than She Has Ever Owed Me That I Am A Candidate For President To The United States.

Round Up And Deport Two Million Aliens Who Committed Crimes.

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

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