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In Prison, I Fell In Love With My Country. I Had Loved Her Before Then, But Like Most Young People, My Affection Was Little More Than A Simple Appreciation For The Comforts And Privileges Most Americans Enjoyed And Took For Granted. It Wasn't Until I Had Lost America For A Time That I Realized How Much I Loved Her.

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In Prison, I Fell

John McCain

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In Prison, I Fell In Love With My Country. I Had Loved Her Before Then, But Like Most Young People, My Affection Was Little More Than A Simple Appreciation For The Comforts And Privileges Most Americans Enjoyed And Took For Granted. It Wasn't Until I Had Lost America For A Time That I Realized How Much I Loved Her.

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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.

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The French Remind Me A Little Bit Of An Aging Actress Of The 1940s Who Is Still Trying To Dine Out On Her Looks But Doesn't Have The Face For It.

We Need Not Risk Our National Honor To Prevail In This Or Any War.

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.

Just Stop At One Of These Construction Sites And Look And See Who Those Workers Are. They're All Hispanic ... And I Bet You They're Illegal.

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I Would Like To Mention That A Couple Days Ago Senator Obama Was Out In Ohio And He Had An Encounter With A Guy Who's A Plumber, His Name Is Joe Wurzelbacher.

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.

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

In Prison, I Fell In Love With My Country. I Had Loved Her Before Then, But Like Most Young People, My Affection Was Little More Than A Simple Appreciation For The Comforts And Privileges Most Americans Enjoyed And Took For Granted. It Wasn't Until I Had Lost America For A Time That I Realized How Much I Loved Her.

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.

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

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

The 'main Street' Retailers ... See Customers Come To The Store To Locate Items ... Only To Leave And Order The Items Over The Internet Just To Escape The Sales Tax.

[vladimir] Putin Supporting Bashar Al-assad, Helping With The Syrian Refugee Crisis And, I Think For Any Republican, He [donald Trump] Has Got To Stop Saying This, Because I Was With Him. I Was With Him And He Said That, It Was Like, I'm Out. I'm Out. It's Too Crazy.

Bin Laden’s Death And The Debate Over Torture.

I Asked That I Not Be Considered For Vice President Of The United States.

It's A Tough Path To Citizenship. You've Got To Pay Back Taxes. You've Got To Learn English. You've Got To Have A Clear Record. You've Got To Get To The Back Of The Line Behind Other People Who Have Come Here Legally Or Even Waiting Legally.

But I'm Still A Work In Progress. My Mother Calls Me Quite Frequently With Various Critiques Of My Performance On Tv And Other Public Events. She's Usually Pretty Severe With Her Comments.

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

[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.

Stategy In Iraq- Defeat Al-qaeda; Limit Iran's Influence.

If You Have A Large Bloc Of Americans Who Believe You're Trying To Keep Their ... Fellow Hispanics Down And Deprive Them Of An Opportunity, Obviously That's Going To Have An Effect...the Republican Party Has Failed To Understand To A Significant Degree The Importance Of This Issue To Our Hispanic Voters. I Think The Trend Will Continue Of Lack Of Support From Hispanic Voters And Also As You Look At The Demographics Of States Like Mine, That Means We Will Go From Republican To Democrat Over Time.

The Point To Me Is Not What Donald Trump Is Saying Because We Keep Reacting To Just Things He Says In His Tweets. What He Is Doing Is Important.

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