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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.

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John McCain

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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.

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

I Have Had A Strong And A Long Relationship On National Security, I've Been Involved In Every National Crisis That This Nation Has Faced Since Beirut, I Understand The Issues, I Understand And Appreciate The Enormity Of The Challenge We Face From Radical Islamic Extremism. I Am Prepared. I Am Prepared. I Need No On-the-job Training. I Wasn't A Mayor For A Short Period Of Time. I Wasn't A Governor For A Short Period Of Time.

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Reducing Military Presence Has Never In History Won A War.

At Least I Don’t Plaster On The Makeup Like A Trollop, You Cunt.

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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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The Facts Are Facts And Records Are Records.

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I Have No Rancor. I Look Forward, Not Backwards.

I'm Not President Bush

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?

We Need More Competitive Races, ... We Need The Voice Of Moderation.

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.

People Want The Truth, Even If They Disagree.

All Interested Parties Must Be Willing To Make Significant Sacrifices.

I Believe We're All Aware That There Are People And Organizations Throughout The World Who Are Bent On Destroying America, Everything We Stand For And Inflicting Harm On American Citizens. It Is The Obligation Of The President Of The United States To Respond To Those. I Believe, I Must Add, That This Adminstration For The Last Seven Months Has Neglected Compelling National Security Threats Besides This ... I Hope That The President Will Not Confine His Activities To Just This.

I Will Not Agree To Have This Bill [to Repeal Dadt ] Go Forward, Because Our Economy Is In The Tank.

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

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.

Thank God For The Saudis And Prince Bandar, And For Our Qatari Friends.

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'm Not Running For President Because I Think I'm Blessed With Such Personal Greatness That History Has Anointed Me To Save Our Country In Its Hour Of Need. My Country Saved Me. My Country Saved Me, And I Cannot Forget It. And I Will Fight For Her For As Long As I Draw Breath, So Help Me God.

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.

America's Image Throughout The World Is Very Bad.

[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.

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

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.

I Can't Believe A Guy That Handsome Wouldn't Have Some Impact.

This Is The Free Enterprise System. The Only Place In The World That I Can Recall Where Companies Never Failed Was The Old Soviet Union. This Is What Investors Do In Free Enterprise And Capitalism System. [...[ And, Yes, Free Enterprise System Can Be Cruel. But The Problem With This Administration Is That Small Businesses Are The One Who Had Suffered The Most, The Kind That Need Investors, The Kinds That Don't Need The Hundreds Of Pages, Thousands Of Pages Of Regulations That Continue To Plague Them And Have Them Hold Back On The Hiring Investment.

I Can Tell You That I Think America Is Safer Today Than It Was On 9/11. But That Doesn't Mean That We Don't Have A Long Way To Go.

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

My Reading Of The Threat From Iran Is That If Iran Acquires Nuclear Weapons, It Is An Existential Threat To The State Of Israel And To Other Countries In The Region Because The Other Countries In The Region Will Feel Compelling Requirement To Acquire Nuclear Weapons As Well. Now We Cannot A Second Holocaust.

Responsibility Always Stops At The President's Desk.

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

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.

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.

Improve Human Intelligence To Get Osama Bin Laden.

Osama Bin Laden

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.

Free Trade With Colombia Is Something That's A No-brainer.

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