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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.

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John McCain

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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.

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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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Round Up And Deport Two Million Aliens Who Committed Crimes.

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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...

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.

The World Is On Fire.

We Must Win In Iraq. If We Withdraw, There Will Be Chaos, There Will Be Genocide, And They Will Follow Us Home.

We Conservatives Can Win The Ideological Battles On A Level Playing Field. Our Ideas Are Better. Given Fair Elections Based On Contributions From Regular Voters, Instead Of $100,000 Checks From Business-as-usual Special Interests, We Will Prevail.

I Spent Most Of My Time Wrestling Looking Up At The Lights.

I Have Said For A Long Time That I Thought The President Would Be Best Served If The Attorney General Resigned So I Think It's The Right Thing To Do.

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.

We Are United In A Wait-and-see Approach.

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.

Some Urge We Do Nothing Because We Can't Be Certain How Bad The (climate) Problem Might Become Or They Presume The Worst Effects Are Most Likely To Occur In Our Grandchildren's Lifetime. I'm A Proud Conservative, And I Reject That Kind Of Live-for-today, 'me Generation,' Attitude. It Is Unworthy Of Us And Incompatible With Our Reputation As Visionaries And Problem Solvers. Americans Have Never Feared Change. We Make Change Work For Us.

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

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.

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

Our Economy, I Think, Is Still -- The Fundamentals Of Our Economy Are Strong.

I Believe That We're Going To Find Out That America Made A Lot Of Mistakes Diplomatically, Economically, Militarily, Intel-wise. But, I Also Think We're Going To Find Out The U.s. Has Done A Lot Of Good Things Too.

We Will Have To Wait A Little Longer To See If Armageddon Has Arrived.

Glory Belongs To The Act Of Being Constant To Something Greater Than Yourself, To A Cause, To Your Principles, To The People On Whom You Rely And Who Rely On You In Return.

And By The Way, I Would Not Only Reappoint Greenspan; If Greenspan Would Happen To Die, God Forbid, I Would Do Like They Did In The Movie 'weekend At Bernie's.' I Would Prop Him Up And Put A Pair Of Dark Glasses On Him.

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

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

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.

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.

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

You May Have Noticed That Senator Obama’s Supporters Have Been Saying Some Pretty Nasty Things About Western Pennsylvania Lately. And You Know, I Couldn’t Agree With Them More.

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