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There's One Big Difference Between Me And The Others - I Won't Take Every Last Dime Of The Surplus And Spend It On Tax Cuts That Mostly Benefit The Wealthy. I'll Use The Bulk Of The Surplus To Secure Social Security Far Into The Future To Keep Our Promise To The Greatest Generation.

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There's One Big Difference

John McCain

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There's One Big Difference Between Me And The Others - I Won't Take Every Last Dime Of The Surplus And Spend It On Tax Cuts That Mostly Benefit The Wealthy. I'll Use The Bulk Of The Surplus To Secure Social Security Far Into The Future To Keep Our Promise To The Greatest Generation.

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Keep Moving If You Love Life, And Keep Your Troubles Well Behind You.

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

There Are Neighborhoods In Baghdad Where You And I Could Walk Through Those Neighborhoods Today.

I Wrestled And Played Football In High School And In My Last Year, I Started As A Wrestler And Actually Had A Fairly Good Record. But I Hated To Lose. I Always Gave It Everything I Had Which, Unfortunately, Was Not As Much As I'd Hoped For. But Keep In Mind, I Feel Like I Got The Most Out Of My Ability. One Moment That Was Special Above All The Rest Was Winning My Last Bout At The Naval Academy To Finish The Entire Summer Undefeated. That Was Thrilling, But What's More, It Helped Me In Prison Because The First Time I Got Knocked Around By The Vietnamese, It Did Not Come As A Total Shock.

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We Have A Lot Of Work To Do And I‘m Afraid That It‘s A Very Hard Struggle, Particularly Given The Situation On The Iraq/pakistan Border.

I Am Sure That Senator Clinton Would Make A Good President. I Have No Doubt That Senator Clinton Would Make A Good President.

I've Already Heard From Some Military Commanders Who Feel They've Been Undercut By The Vice President Of The United States, And There's A Lot Of Justification For Their View.

At No Time Have I Ever Done Anything That Would Betray The Public Trust.

Don't Let Anyone Tell You Otherwise - Not Our Political Opponents, And Certainly Not A Disingenuous Filmmaker, Who Would Have Us Believe.

Only A Fool Or A Fraud Talks Tough Or Romantically About War.

Our Country Doesn't Depend On The Heroism Of Every Citizen. But All Of Us Should Be Worthy Of The Sacrifices Made On Our Behalf.

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.

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I Am Very Much In Favor Of Tax Cuts.

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I Am Fully Prepared To Be Commander In Chief... I Don't Need On-the-job Training.

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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 Admire Obama, And I Like Him. I Think He Has A Great Deal Of Talent. He Should Be Applauded For His Eloquence And For His Ability To Motivate Millions.

Events Are Moving Fast In My Campaign, And Yes, It's True That This Morning I've Dismissed My Entire Team Of Senior Advisers. All Of Their Positions Will Now Be Held By A Man Named 'joe The Plumber.'

Just By Coincidence, Senator Teddy Kennedy And I, In The Last Couple Of Days, After Several Months Of Negotiations, Have Reached An Agreement For An Immigration Proposal That We Will Be Putting Out Next Week, ... Our Proposal Is Along The Lines Of Make Them Pay A Fine Of A Couple Thousand Dollars, Make Them Work For Three Years, And After Three Years They Can Get In The Back Of The Line For A Green Card And Then Eventually Become Citizens.

I Appreciate Our Government's Determination To Investigate The Circumstances Surrounding The Death Of The Bytyqi Brothers, Which Serbia's Interior Minister Has Rightly Called 'an Exceptionally Serious Crime,' And Hope The Serbian Government's Pledge Of Full Cooperation... Is Matched By A Final Accounting Of Their Murder.

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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.

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

There Is No Confidence In The Arab World Today In The United States Of America.

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As You Know, There Are Al Qaeda Operatives That Are Taken Back Into Iran, Given Training As Leaders, And They’re Moving Back Into Iraq.

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

I Am Confident, With The Leadership And The Backing Of The American People, President Obama Will Turn This Country Around.

I Say To Our Enemies: We Are Coming. God May Have Mercy On You, But We Won't

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

The Benefit Of An Open Town Hall Meeting Is One That You Get To Hear A Lot Of Different Views, And Two It Has Credibility.

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 Know For A Fact The Russians Tried To Change The Outcome Of Our Election, Attacking The Very Fundamental Of Democracy. We Know They Did That. We Need To Know How, We Need To Know Why, And Most Of All We Need To Know What To Do To Prevent This Kind Of Activity, Which They Continue To Carry On In Free Nations Around The World.

Our Enemies Didn't Adhere To The Geneva Convention. Many Of My Comrades Were Subjected To Very Cruel, Very Inhumane And Degrading Treatment, A Few Of Them Even Unto Death. But Every One Of Us - Every Single One Of Us - Knew And Took Great Strength From The Belief That We Were Different From Our Enemies, That We Were Better Than Them, That We, If The Roles Were Reversed, Would Not Disgrace Ourselves By Committing Or Countenancing Such Mistreatment Of Them.

Both Candidates In This Election [2004] Pledge To End This War And Bring Our Troops Home. The Great Difference - The Great Difference Is That I Intend To Win It First.

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

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

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

But Certainly In The Short Term, Or Even The Long Term, I Would Not Support Repeal Of Roe V. Wade, Which Would Then Force X Number Of Women In America To [undergo] Illegal And Dangerous Operations.

In The View Of Everyone, I Am A Viable Candidate And I Should Be On The Ballot.

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.

I Take A Backseat To No One In My Affection, Respect And Devotion To Veterans. And I Will Not Accept From Senator Obama, Who Did Not Feel It Was His Responsibility To Serve Our Country In Uniform, Any Lectures On My Regard For Those Who Did.

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

America Has Much To Gain In Terms Of Jobs And Trade By Meeting The Growing World Demand For Advanced, Environmentally Sound Technologies.

I'm Ashamed That Congress Finds Billions For Pork-barrel Subsidies But Fails To Find Money For Veterans' Health Care.

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.

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.

When We're Talking About A Trillion Dollars Of Taxpayer Money, "trust Me" Just Isn't Good Enough.

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

Our Nation Has Both An Obligation And Self-interest In Facing Head-on The Serious Environmental, Economic And National Security Threat Posed By Global Warming.

We Know That Medicare's Going Broke In Seven Years, But We Need To Start Over. That's What The American People Want Us To Do.

We Cannot Forever Hide The Truth About Ourselves From Ourselves.

Women Need The Education And Training, Particularly Since More And More Women Are Heads Of Their Households, As Much Or More Than Anybody Else...and It's Hard For Them To Leave Their Families When They Don't Have Somebody To Take Care Of Them....it's A Vicious Cycle That's Affecting Women, Particularly In A Part Of The Country Like This, Where Mining Is The Mainstay; Traditionally, Women Have Not Gone Into That Line Of Work, To Say The Least.

As Almost Anyone With War Experience Knows, You're Never Supposed To Show The Enemy What You Won't Do To Win.

Why The Hell Do I Have To Keep Updating My Apps On My Iphone All The Time And Why You Don't Fix That?

I Think It's A Very Legitimate Aspect Of American Life To Criticize And To Disagree And To Debate. But I Want To Say I Think It's A Lie To Say That The President Lied To The American People. I Sat On The Robb-silverman Commission. I Saw Many, Many Analysts That Came Before That Committee. I Asked Every One Of Them-i Said, 'did-were You Ever Pressured Politically Or Any Other Way To Change Your Analysis Of The Situation As You Saw?' Every One Of Them Said No.

Today More People Lose Their Seats In The Politburo In Havana Than In The Congress Of America, ... We Need To Have Competitive Races For The Legislature. ... We Have To Have A Clash Of Ideas.

The Smartest Person In The United States Senate, And He Knows It, Is John Sununu. Thank God He Had His Mother's Temperament.

In California, It's Hard To Buy All The Media, No Matter How Much Money You Raise Or Spend, Because It's Such A Huge State.

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

My Greatest Fear Is The Iranians Acquire A Nuclear Weapon And Give It To A Terrorist Organization. And There Is A Real Threat Of Them Doing That.

The Cable Industry Has Risen To New Heights In Their Apparent Willingness And Ability To Gouge The American Consumer. Cable Rates [have] Increased An Unbelievable Five-and-a-half Times Faster Than Inflation.

If Money Is Free Speech, The Big Interests Are Sitting In Front With Megaphones And The Average Citizens Are Sitting In The Back.

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

The Core Political Values Of Our Free Society Are So Deeply Embedded In Our Collective Consciousness That Only A Few Malcontents, Lunatics Generally, Ever Dare To Threaten Them.

Iraq Is Now The Central Front In The War Against Al-qaeda.

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

The United States Of American Business Pays The Second-highest Business Taxes In The World, 35 Percent. Ireland Pays 11 Percent. Now, If You're A Business Person, And You Can Locate Any Place In The World, Then, Obviously, If You Go To The Country Where It's 11 Percent Tax Versus 35 Percent, You're Going To Be Able To Create Jobs, Increase Your Business, Make More Investment, Et Cetera. I Want To Cut That Business Tax. I Want To Cut It So That Businesses Will Remain In The United States Of America And Create Jobs.

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.

Rogue States Are The Main Threat To Peace And Freedom, And They Require A Strong, Comprehensive Policy Response - A Policy That I Call 'rogue State Rollback,' In Which Our Goal Is Not Simply To Contain Rogue Regimes, But To Drive Them From Power.

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

Look, President Clinton Had Opportunities To Get Osama Bin Laden. President Bush Had Opportunities To Get Osama Bin Laden. I Know How To Do It And I'll Do It. And I Understand And I Have The Knowledge And The Background And The Experience To Make The Right Judgments. Sen. Obama Does Not. He Was Wrong On Iraq. He Underestimated Iran. He Has No Knowledge Or Experience Or Judgment. That's - He Doesn't Know How - How The World Works Nor How The Military Works. I Do And I Can Lead And I'll Secure The Peace.

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?

I Have Said Many Times In The Past I Don't Choose To Be Vice President, Either Republican, Democrat, Libertarian Or Vegetarian.

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.

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 Watch Sports All The Time. My Wife Cindy Says I Would Watch The Thumb-suckers Play The Bed-wetters. I Watch All Sports And I Enjoy All Sports. It's Been Great Fun In My Life And A Great Diversion.

War Is Wretched Beyond Description, And Only A Fool Or A Fraud Could Sentimentalize Its Cruel Reality.

The First Pork-barrel Bill That Crosses My Desk, I'm Going To Veto It And Make The Authors Of Those Pork-barrel Items Famous All Over America.

Thanks To General Petraeus, Our Leadership And The Sacrifice Of Brave Young Americans. To Deny That Their Sacrifice Didn't Make Possible The Success Of The Surge In Iraq, I Think Does A Great Disservice...the Progress Has Been Immense.

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I'm Just Trying To Keep Things Normal Around The House, Because There's No Reason Why Things Shouldn't Be Normal.

I've Seen Enough Killing In My Life. I Know How Precious Human Life Is And I Don't Need A Lecture From You.

I Would Never Want To See Myself Viewed As Beating The Drums Of War, ... But I Would Rather Live With That Image Than Look Into The Mirror And See A Member Of Congress Who Failed To Do His Duty.

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.

You Cannot Tell The Enemy You're Going To Leave And Expect The Enemy To Not - And Expect To Succeed. I Mean, That's Just A Fundamental Of Warfare.

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.

I Guarantee You, As President Of The United States, I Know How To Heal The Wounds Of War, I Know How To Deal With Our Adversaries, And I Know How To Deal With Our Friends.

Inexperience Because Of (president Barack) Obama's Inexperience.look That Would Be One Of The Challenges.

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

I Spent Five And A Half Years In Prison. The Worst Part Was Coming Home And Finding Out Green Acres Had Been Cancelled. What The Hell Was I Fighting For?

I Think It's An Urgent Plea For Us All To Sit Down Together.

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

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.

The World Is On Fire.

I'm Going To Be Honest: I Know A Lot Less About Economics Than I Do About Military And Foreign Policy Issues. I Still Need To Be Educated.

I Think They Put Some Lipstick On A Pig, But It's Still A Pig.

The Only Way You Approach Politics And Seek Elective Office Is To Move Forward. For Me To Look Back In Anger Or With Any Rancor Would Be A Mistake.

Parents Are Not The All-knowing, Ideal People We Would Like You To Think We Are. We've Made Wrong Choices Before, And Will Again, Like Everyone Else, .. But Our Mistakes Are Not The Measure Of Our Love For You. You Are That Measure, And How Well You Are Prepared To Make Better Choices Than We Have Made.

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.

America Has The Strongest, Best-trained, Best-led Military Force In The World, And We Have Failed Them. Our Military Today Is Struggling In Virtually Every Category That Measures Preparedness.

In The 2012 Election, Obamacare, As It's Called, And I'll Be More Polite - The Aca ...was A Major Issue In The Campaign. I Campaigned All Over America For Two Months, Everywhere I Could. And In Every Single Campaign Rally I Said, 'we Have To Repeal And Replace Obamacare.' Well, The People Spoke. They Spoke, Much To My Dismay, But They Spoke. And They Reelected The President Of The United States.

Everybody Says That They're Against The Special Interests. I'm The Only One The Special Interests Don't Give Any Money To.

Fear Is The Opportunity For Courage, Not Proof Of Cowardice.

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.

I Am A Computer Illiterate That Has To Rely On My Wife For All Of The Assistance I Can Get.

Men And Women Serving In The Military Deserve Better Than What They're Giving - What We're Giving Them. They Don't Know What They're Going To Be Doing Tomorrow.

Many Of The Countries Outpacing The United States In The Deployment Of High Speed Internet Services, Including Canada, Japan And South Korea, Have Successfully Combined Municipal Systems With Privately Deployed Networks To Wire Their Countries, .. As A Country, We Cannot Afford To Cut Off Any Successful Strategy If We Want To Remain Internationally Competitive.

The Day That I Can Land At The Airport In Baghdad And Ride In An Unarmed Car Down The Highway To The Green Zone Is The Day That I'll Start Considering Withdrawals From Iraq.

Democrats Proposing Failure In Iraq By Withdrawing.

We Should Be Able To Deliver Bottled Hot Water To Dehydrated Babies.

Round Up And Deport Two Million Aliens Who Committed Crimes.

You Hear It Every Four Years, ... Scare The Seniors, Scare The Seniors.

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.

Each Middle East Country Has Their Own Unique Kinds Of Challenges; But The Fundamentals, The Desire For Democracy And Freely Elected Governments Is A Common Thread Throughout.

I Think, Again, Neither Of These Candidates [donald Trump And Hillary Clinton] Is Blowing Me Away. Actually, I Would Like Both Of Them To Get More Policy Specific.

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

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

I'm Very Optimistic About My Home State Of Arizona...

I Just Think That We Ought To Protect The Social Security Fund.

Sarah Palin Knows More About Energy Than Probably Anyone Else In The United States Of America.

We Still Have A Long Way To Go Before We Can Declare America Safe, And That Means Doing A Better Job Along Our Borders, As Well.

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.

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.

I Have Known Trent Lott For 20 Years, ... I Don't Believe He's Racist. But He Must Proactively Send A Message To His Colleagues In The Senate And The American People That He Is Absolutely Opposed To Any Segregation In Any Form And Racism In Any Form And Discrimination In Any Form.

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.

Cindy And I Are Adoptive Parents. We Know What A Treasure And Joy It Is To Have An Adopted Child In Our Lives.

Some Of Us Are More Favorably Disposed Than Others.

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