This Kind Of Horror Has Become All Too Familiar To Us. As Parents, Cindy And I Offer Our Prayers To The Memory Of The Slain Children And Ask That God Ease The Pain Of Littleton's Suffering Families, ... The Students Of Columbine High School And Children Everywhere Have A Basic Right To Learn In An Environment Free Of Fear And Violence. We Must Redouble Our Efforts To See That This Is A Reality.

-John McCain

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John McCain

Topic

Prayer

Children

Pain

More From John McCain

On My Honor, I Swear To You, That From My First Day In Office To The Last Breath I Draw, I Will Do Everything In My Power To Make You Proud Of Your Government.

Government

Office

Honor

I Am Learning To Get Online Myself, And I Will Have That Down Fairly Soon, Getting On Myself.

Online

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.

Couple

Agreement

Next Week

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.

Determination

Brother

Government

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.

Country

Cutting

Successful

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.

Summer

Football

School

I Will Not Leave The Republican Party, ... The Republican Party Is My Home.

Party

Home

Republican

I Think My Major Challenge, Very Frankly, Is To Maintain The Traction, ... I've Seen Many Campaigns Here In The State Of New Hampshire Look Good For A While, And Then The Air Comes Out Of The Balloon.

Thinking

Air

Challenges

That's Give [donald Trump] So Much Attention. And It's So Funny. There Actually Have Conflicting Opinions On Women In Combat, In The Military. So They Have All The Issues That Stake. I'm More Concerned With The Va Than Anything Else.

Military

Issues

Giving

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

People

Majority

Want

Do We Really Want Another Politician In The White House America Can't Trust?

White

America

House

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.

Mother

Progress

Events

I Will Veto Every Single Beer, Um, Bill With Earmarks.

Beer

Bills

Veto

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.

Winning

Ideas

Special

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

War

Fool

Tough

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.

Iran

Ideas

Knowing

Despite Occasional Policy Differences Between Us, I Have Long Respected Jim Jeffords' Integrity, And His Conscientious Service To His Constituents And To The Nation.

Integrity

Differences

Long

The Abuse Of Prisoners Hurts America's Cause In The War On Terror, Endangers Us Service Members Who Might Be Captured By The Enemy, And Is Anathema To The Values Americans Have Held Dear For Generations.

Hurt

War

America

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.

Order

Internet

Main Street

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

Europe

United States

Causes

I Think There [are] Great Economies That Can Be Made Starting With A Round Of Base Closings, ... I Want The President To Veto These Pork-barrel Spending Bills Which Have Grown To Incredible Obscene Levels. I Believe There Are A Number Of Weapons Systems That Have To Be Eliminated.

Believe

Thinking

Numbers

Washington Is A Hollywood For Ugly People. Hollywood Is A Washington For The Simpleminded.

People

Hollywood

Ugly

I Don't Think It's Bribery; I Think It's Extortion. Bribery, You Know, Is When The Person That's Giving The Money Does It Voluntarily. What It Is In Washington Is Extortion Because They All Ask For The Money.

Thinking

Giving

Political

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.

Strong

Jobs

Islamic

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.

Country

Appreciation

Simple

There Is No Doubt In My Mind That Rudy Giuliani In The Senate Will Be A Leader For The People Of New York But Also For The People Of Arizona And The People All Over This Country.

Country

New York

People

Giving Peace A Chance Only Gives Saddam Hussein More Time To Prepare For War On His Terms, At A Time Of His Choosing, In Pursuit Of Ambitions That Will Only Grow As His Power To Achieve Them Grows.

War

Ambition

Giving

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

Strong

Thinking

Fundamentals

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.'

Senior

Morning

Team

Sen. Obama Is A Decent Person And A Person You Don't Have To Be Scared Of As President Of The United States.

President

United States

Scared

As Long As Americans Are Not Being Injured Or Harmed Or Wounded Or Killed, It's Fine With Me And I Hope It Would Be Fine With You If We Maintain A Presence In A Very Volatile Part Of The World Where Al Qaeda Is Training, Recruiting, Equipping And Motivating People Every Single Day.

Long

People

Training

I Looked Into Mr. Putin's Eyes, And I Saw Three Letters, A "k," A "g," And A "b."

Eye

Certify Border Is Secure; Only Then Allow Guest Workers.

Guests

Borders

Workers

Thank God For Our Form Of Government. The Media Won't Let There Be Any Cover-up.

Government

Media

Thank God

Unfortunately, Governor Bush Is A Pat Robertson Republican Who Will Lose To Al Gore.

Als

Republican

Governors

You Know That Old Beach Boys Song, Bomb Iran? Bomb Bomb Bomb, Bomb Bomb Iran.

Song

Beach

Boys

Katrina Did Not Declare A Truce On Iraq.

Iraq

Truce

Katrina

There Is No Moral Equivalent Between That Butcher And Thug And Kgb Colonel Vladimir Putin And The United States Of America, The Country That Ronald Reagan Used To Call A Shining City On A Hill.

Country

Thug

Cities

Under My Plan, 85 Percent Of America Will Pay No Tax Or Have A Flat Tax At Our Lowest Rate Of 15 Percent.

America

Pay

Flat Tax

I Am Not President Bush.

President

President Bush

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

Party

Pro Life

Politics

I Think We've Got To Make A Case That I'm Ready, That I Put My Country First, And It's Time To Put Aside Partisan Rancor And Differences And Work Together For The Country And That I Can Create Jobs And Restore Our Economy And Keep Our Country Safe.

Country

Thinking

Working Together

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.

Government

Average

Games

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.

President

Vices

Would Be

So When Someone, A Veteran Stands Up And Say, "here Are The Facts On The Va." He [donald Trump] Says, "no, Your Facts Are Wrong." Turns Out Her Facts Are Right And His Facts Are Wrong.

Facts

Veteran

Trump

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.

Thinking

Clinton

Trump

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

Baby

Water

Hot

We Ought To Pay Down The National Debt, ... The American People Are Tired Of People Who Make Promises About Cutting Taxes That They Cannot Keep.

Tired

Cutting

People

The Political Tactics Of Division And Slander Are Not Our Values. They Are Corrupting Influences On Religion And Politics, And Those Who Practice Them In The Name Of Religion Or In The Name Of The Republican Party Or In The Name Of America Shame Our Faith, Our Party And Our Country.

Country

Party

Practice

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

War

Risk

Honor

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

Done

Betray

Public Trust

I Do Believe My View Has Evolved.

Believe

Views

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.

Real

Greatest Fear

Organization

Just Because They Broke The Law Doesn't Mean They're Condemned Forever To A Twilight Status. So, I Think That Most Americans, If These People Who Have Come Illegally, As Long As They Pay Back Taxes, Pay A Fine, Learn English And Get Behind Everybody Else, That's A Key Element Of It. And Most Americans Now Realize We Can't Have 11 Million People Sit In The Twilight - The Shadows Of America, Forever.

Believe

Twilight

Mean

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?

Thinking

Issues

People

We Know That This Nation Entered Into Solemn Treaties [with Indian Tribes] Which Have Been Continuously Violated For More Than 250 Years. It's A Disgrace. It's An Outrage. We Must Do Everything In Our Power To Keep Those Treaties. Otherwise, The Word Of The United States Government Is No Good.

Years

Government

Tribes

I Can Only Express Satisfaction That The Dear Leader Is Joining The Likes Of Gaddafi, Bin Laden, Hitler, And Stalin In A Warm Corner Of Hell.

Leader

Gaddafi

Joining

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

Matter

Republican

Made

[while] The Primary Responsibility, As We All Acknowledge, (falls) With The Family, ... Our Homes, Our Families, Our Children's Minds Are Being Flooded By A Tide Of Violence.

Children

Fall

Home

The World Is On Fire.

Fire

World

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

War

Winning

Enemy

Torture Gives You Reliable And Unreliable Information. That's The Reason Why Most People In The World Don't Do It. So This Idea That You Have To Torture People In Order To Protect National Security Is A False Argument, And I Reject It.

Order

Ideas

Giving

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

Past

You Can Disagree With Someone On Issues, But You Should Never Get Personal. Joe Biden Has Never Gotten Personal, To My Knowledge, With A Fellow Senator.

Issues

Biden

Should

When You Have Airplanes With Precision Weapons, Striking Hospitals In Aleppo And Slaughtering Innocent Men, Women And Children, You're Committing A War Crime. So We Need More Sanctions Against Russia. We Should Not Relax Them.

Children

War

Airplane

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

Home

Winning

Iraq

I Strongly Support The Second Amendment And I Believe The Second Amendment Ought To Be Preserved - Which Means No Gun Control.

Believe

Mean

Gun

I Want To Tell The Vice President And Everybody Else That When I'm President There Will Be A Controlling Legal Authority.

President

Vices

Want

I Respect Sarah Palin. I Appreciate Her And Her Husband Enormously. I Think She Will Continue To Play A Major Role In The Future Of The Republican Party.

Husband

Party

Thinking

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.

Technology

Years

Issues

I Have Fought Against Excessive Spending My Entire Career. And I Got Plans To Reduce And Eliminate Unnecessary And Wasteful Spending And If There's Anybody Here Who Thinks There Aren't Agencies Of Government Where Spending Can Be Cut And Their Budgets Slashed They Have Not Spent A Lot Of Time In Washington.

Cutting

Thinking

Unnecessary

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.

Dream

Honesty

Standards

I'm Not President Bush

President

President Bush

Well, I Don't Think It Is Amnesty To Start With. Second Of All, What Do You Want To Do With Them? That Is The Question In Response. And Third Of All, It Is A Tough Path To Citizenship. You Have 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 Waiting Legally. So, I Just Reject That.

Thinking

People

Waiting

There's Going To Be Other Wars. I'm Sorry To Tell You, There's Going To Be Other Wars. We Will Never Surrender, But There Will Be Other Wars.

Sorry

War

Surrender

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

America

President

United States

Round Up And Deport Two Million Aliens Who Committed Crimes.

Two

Aliens

Crime

As Long As There Is A War On Terrorism Going On, We're All Going To Have To Work Together.

War

Long

Working Together

I Think That Decisions Should Rest In The Hands Of The States. I'm A Federalist.

Thinking

Hands

Decision

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.

Views

Issues

People

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.

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

Positive

Leadership

Motivation

Excessive Administration Secrecy... Feeds Conspiracy Theories And Reduces The Public's Confidence In Government.

Government

Administration

Conspiracy

In The 21st Century Nations Don't Invade Other Nations.

Century

21st Century

Nations

And We Are In A Strange Conundrum. You Can Kill An American Citizen Overseas. But According To This Administration, If You Capture Him In The United States, They've Got To Be Read Their Miranda Rights.

Rights

Administration

United States

People Want The Truth, Even If They Disagree.

People

Want

Ifs

The Problem Is That Most Members Of Congress Don’t Pay Attention To What’s Going On.

Attention

Pay

Problem

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

Baghdad

Today

Neighborhood

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

Tanks

Bills

Economy

Let's Move Forward To Try To Address The Most Egregious And Outrageous Corrupting Aspect Of Campaigns In America Today And That Is The Incredible Inundation Of Soft Money And Its Pernicious Effects.

Moving

America

Trying

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).

Air

Years

Space

To Equate Vladimir Putin And The United States Of America, As Donald Trump Was Asked, You Know, I Guess It Was Bill O'reilly Who Said, "but Putin Is A Killer." And He Basically Said, "so Are We." That Moral Equivalency Is A Contradiction Of Everything The United States Has Ever Stood For In The 20th And 21st Century.

America

United States

Bills

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

America

Energy

United States

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.

Country

Reading

Holocaust

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

Memorial Day

Enemy

May

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.

Thinking

Ebola

United States

I Am Proud To Do So For I Know That By Supporting George W. Bush, I Serve My Country Well.

Country

Proud

Wells

I Would Vote For A Muslim If He Or She Was The Best Candidate Able To Lead The Country And Defend Our Political Values.

Country

Political

Able

I Appreciate The Decision Made By Gov. Brewer To Veto This Legislation. I Hope That We Can Now Move On From This Controversy And Assure The American People That Everyone Is Welcome To Live, Work And Enjoy Our Beautiful State Of Arizona.

Beautiful

Moving

Gay

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.

Democracy

Needs

Fundamentals

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

President

Vices

United States

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

Race

Voice

Needs

America Is The Greatest Force For Good In The History Of The World.

America

World

Force

Torture Doesn't Work.

Torture

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.

Lying

Thinking

People

Do You Know Why Chelsea Clinton Is So Ugly? Because Janet Reno Is Her Father.

Father

Ugly

Clinton

Our Political Differences, Now Matter How Sharply They Are Debated, Are Really Quite Narrow In Comparison To The Remarkably Durable National Consensus On Our Founding Convictions.

Political Differences

Matter

Conviction

If You Talk To These Young Men And Women Who Are Fighting, They'll Tell You That They Think It's A Worthwhile Cause, And They're Fighting For Freedom, And They-well, They-all I'm Saying-the Overwhelming Majority Of Them Do.

Fighting

Men

Thinking

Russia Is A Gas Station Masquerading As A Country. It's Kleptocracy, It's Corruption, It's A Nation That's Really Only Dependent Upon Oil And Gas For Their Economy.

Country

Money

Reality

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

Looks

Rancor

Backwards

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.

Cutting

Differences

Promise

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.

Running

Country

Blessed

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.

War

Home

Winning

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.

War

Mirrors

Looks

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.

Mistake

Moving

Office

Arizona May Be The Only State In America Where Mothers Don't Tell Their Children That Someday, They Can Grow Up And Be President Of The United States.

Mother

Children

Growing Up

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.

Pennsylvania

May

Nasty

I Campaigned In 2012 All Over This Country For Months: 'repeal And Replace Obamacare.' That Was Not The Mandate Of The Voters. If They Wanted To Repeal Obamacare, The 2012 Election Would Have Been Probably Significantly Different.

Country

Obamacare

Different

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.

Sports

Baseball

Player

I Want To Emphasis Again, Governor (thomas) Kean And Congressman (lee) Hamilton Pointed Out That Congressional Oversight Also Was A Major Contributor To Our Failures Prior To 9/11 And That Has To Be Fixed As Well.

Want

Hamilton

Fixed

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

Past

President

Vices

I Am A Republican. I'm Loyal To The Party Of Abraham Lincoln And Theodore Roosevelt. And I Believe That My Party, In Some Ways, Has Strayed From Those Principles, Particularly On The Issue Of Fiscal Discipline.

Party

Believe

Issues

We Were Pleased To Hear The President State His Firm Commitment That He Will Do Whatever Is Necessary To Accomplish This Important Goal.

Commitment

Goal

Important

There Is Always An Element Of Realpolitik That Has To Be Present In The Conduct Of Any Nation's National Security Affairs. At The Same Time, We Have To Also Have A Balance Between Realpolitik And Wilsonian Principles Of Freedom And Democracy And Human Rights. And Maintaining That Balance Is The Greatest Challenge That We In The West, Including The Federal Republic Of Germany, Have To Face Because It's Many Times A Very Difficult Decision-making Process.

Rights

Decision

Challenges

Anybody Who Believes The Surge Has Not Succeeded, Militarily, Politically And In Most Other Ways, Frankly, Does Not Know The Facts On The Ground.

Believe

Doe

Way

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.

Believe

Sunset

Hands

It Is Illegal For Children To Purchase Tobacco In Every State In The Country. And In Every State ... Tobacco Companies Have Invested Enormous Sums Of Money And Time To Encourage Widespread Lawbreaking.

Country

Children

States

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...

Real

War

Differences

We Are An Unfinished Nation.

Unfinished

Nations

I Am Very Much In Favor Of Tax Cuts.

Cutting

Favors

Taxes

It Seems To Me That President Carter Has Earned His Place As If Not The Worst President In History, The Worst President Of The 20th Century.

Political

President

Century

[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.

Senior

Choices

Challenges

We Can't Disrupt Polling Places Anymore, ... It Doesn't Serve Any Purpose. It Just Makes People Mad.

People

Mad

Purpose

All This Money Washing Around Washington And All Of These Contributions Taint All Of Us.

Contribution

Washing

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.

Believe

Years

Racism

It's A Fundamental Aspect Of The Free Enterprise System And Economics: If There's No Penalty Associated With Increased Costs, Why Not Lay On Increased Costs?

Cost

Why Not

Fundamentals

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

Memorial Day

Thinking

Trying

The President(obama) Comparing Him To A Kid In The Back Of A Classroom, I Think, Is Very Indicative Of The President's Lack Of Appreciation Of Who Vladimir Putin Is. He's An Old Kgb Colonel That Has No Illusions About Our Relationship, Does Not Care About A Relationship With The United States, Continues To Oppress His People, Continues To Act In An Autocratic Fashion.

Fashion

Appreciation

Kids

The Fact That We Did Not Give The Demonstrators In Iran Our Moral Support When A Young Woman Named Neda Bled To Death In The Streets Of Iran Will Go Down As One Of The Great Mistakes Of The 21st Century.

Mistake

Iran

Giving

I Intend To Do What I Can, Working With My Congressional Colleagues, Republicans And Democrats, To Help Bring About The Changes To The Practices And Institutions Of Our Democracy That They Want And Deserve.

Practice

Democracy

Want

Subjecting Prisoners To Abuse Leads To Bad Intelligence, Because Under Torture A Detainee Will Tell His Interrogator Anything To Make The Pain Stop. Second, Mistreatment Of Our Prisoners Endangers U.s. Troops Who Might Be Captured By The Enemy – If Not In This War, Then In The Next. And Third, Prisoner Abuses Exact On Us A Terrible Toll In The War Of Ideas, Because Inevitably These Abuses Become Public.

Pain

War

Ideas

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

Iphone

Hell

Apps

Hillary [clinton] Saying We're Never Going To Put Boots On The Ground In Iraq, We Never Going To Put Boots On The Ground In Syria Petrified Me, Simply Because, Why - What If This Continues Despite Out Of Control.

Iraq

What If

Boots

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.

Mean

Thinking

Long

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.

Thinking

Numbers

Issues

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

Numbers

People

Defeat

All Interested Parties Must Be Willing To Make Significant Sacrifices.

Party

Sacrifice

Significant

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

Challenges

President

Inexperience

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

Views

Should

Ballots

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.

Military

Struggle

America

I'm As Frustrated With The French, I Think, As Anyone, But Look, There's Going To Be Other Challenges And There Are Going To Be Other Issues. As Long As There's A War On Terrorism Going On, We're All Going To Have To Work Together.

War

Thinking

Issues

Bin Laden’s Death And The Debate Over Torture.

Debate

Torture

Bin Laden

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.

Country

Unique

Government

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.

Self

Environmental

Serious

For Decades We Have Been Living Lives Of Abundance, With Little Regard For Our Natural Resources Or Global Health. But We Are Now Facing Hard Choices In Our Energy Policy. Future Generations - My Children And Grandchildren, Along With Yours - Will Have To Live With The Decisions We Make Today. And So It Is Time For Us To Make Some Tough And - Hopefully - Smart Choices Regarding Our Energy Use And Production Before It Is Too Late.

Children

Smart

Live Life

We Should Exhibit No Self Doubt To Our Friends, ... Credibility Is A Strategic Asset.

Self

Doubt

Assets

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.

Numbers

America

Long

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

War

Scene

Knows

Even In This Room Full Of Proud Manhattan Democrats. I Can't Shake That Feeling That Some People Here Are Pulling For Me ... I'm Delighted To See You Here Tonight, Hillary.

People

Feelings

Tonight

I Think That Joe Biden Is Qualified In Many Respects. But I Do Point Out That He's Been Wrong On Many Foreign Policy And National Security Issues, Which Is Supposed To Be His Strength.

Thinking

Issues

Biden

Americans Have Got To Understand That We Are Paying Present-day Retirees With The Taxes Paid By Young Workers In America Today. And That's A Disgrace. It's An Absolute Disgrace And It's Got To Be Fixed.

America

Today

Fixed

The Majority Of [the Troops In Iraq] Is That Feel They're Doing The Right Thing And Their Parents Who Have Also Made Sacrifices, Generally Speaking, And Their Proud Of The Services Of Their Sons And Daughters.

Daughter

Son

Sacrifice

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.

Couple

Ohio

Names

While I Support A More Comprehensive Bill And Hope A More Extensive Package Will Eventually Past The Senate, I Also Am A Realist And Know That We Must Not Let The Perfect Bill Be The Enemy Of Real Reform.

Real

Past

Perfect

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

Waiting

United

Approach

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.

Party

Als

Agents

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

Growing Up

Party

Past

The Russians Are Succeeding In Continuing Their Dismemberment Of Ukraine, They're Succeeding In Exerting Enormous Influence In The Middle East, Which They Never Had Before. They Are Succeeding - They Have Succeeded In Interfering With Our Election, And We Know That They Continue That In The French Elections And Other Elections. And So Far They Have Paid A Little Or No Penalty For All Of This Misbehavior.

Ukraine

Middle East

Littles

I Think Where [donald Trump] Loses Most Hawkish Republicans Is When He Talking About How Much He Likes [vladimir] Putin. That Should Make Any Person Who Believe In The American Exceptionalism, Incredibly Uncomfortable.

Believe

Thinking

Talking

Many Good People Mistake Their Reputation For Their Character. It Is A Mistake I Have Made Many, Many Times.

Mistake

Character

People

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.

Military

Views

President

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

Iraq

President

President Bush

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

Doubt

Sincerity

Should

An Act Of Heroism, Of Extraordinary Courage, The Grandeur Of It, Won't Easily Inspire Us To Act In Imitation, But It Can Inspire Us To Emulate Its Author. For That, We Should Learn What We Can Of The Whole Experience Of The Subject, The Hero's Life, As It Was Before And After, And Believe That Trying To Emulate The Character It Reveals Is One Tried Way To Prepare For The Tests That Might Await Us And Gain Hope That Our Courage Will Not Be Wanting In The Moment.

Inspirational

Believe

Hero

Vladimir Putin Is A War Criminal.

War

Criminals

Putin

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.

Country

Cutting

World

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

Colombia

Trade

Free Trade

I Was An Addict. That's Why, ... I Tell You, Addiction Is A Very Cunning Enemy.

Addiction

Enemy

Cunning

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.

Military

Opportunity

President

I'm A Proud Reagan Conservative.

Proud

Conservative

I Believe Strongly That We Should Have Nominees To The United States Supreme Court Based On Their Qualifications Rather Than Any Litmus Test.

Believe

Should Have

Tests

The Question Is Not Whether You Would Like To Be President Or Not. The Question Is: Do You Think You Can Win And Do You Want To Run? And None Of Those Are Clear To Me.

Running

Winning

Thinking

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.

Country

Responsibility

Uniforms

I Think That When You Look At The Great Politicians, The Two Greatest In My View Were George Washington And Abraham Lincoln, They Certainly Had Character Traits. You Also Know Abraham Lincoln Overcame Severe Depression Problems That He Had When He Was Younger, Which Gave Him The Strength And The Character Later On.

Inspirational

Strength

Strong

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

Winning

Thinking

Want

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.

Party

Believe

Mean

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.

Competition

Gone

Goes On

Some Of Us Are More Favorably Disposed Than Others.

The Way You Have Bipartisan Negotiations, You Sit Down Across The Table, As We Did With Ted Kennedy, As I've Done With Many Other Members, And You Say, 'ok, Here's What I Want, Here's What You Want. We'll Adhere To Your Principles, But We'll Make Concessions.'

Principles

Done

Tables

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.

America

Pork

Bills

I Don’t E-mail, I’ve Never Felt The Particular Need To E-mail.

Needs

Mail

Particular

I Don't Use Coarse Language Very Often. I Have A Larger Vocabulary Than That.

Vocabulary

Use

Language

I'm Not Surprised That Governor Dean Would Oppose [the $87 Billion To Fund Iraq Reconstruction].... I've Lost Confidence That He Has Any Understanding Of The National Security Responsibilities Of A President... [b]ecause I Don't Believe That He Has Any Understanding Of The International Role That The United States Has To Play In The World. I Think It's A Kind Of A Pseudo-isolationism That Appeals To The Base Of The Caucus Voters. I Do Not Believe That Particularly In The Case Of Iraq That Governor Dean Has Any Fundamental Understanding Of What's At Stake Here.

Believe

Responsibility

Thinking

Responsibility Always Stops At The President's Desk.

Responsibility

President

Desks

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.

Moving

Taken

Iraq

The Facts Are Facts And Records Are Records.

Records

Facts

We Must Be True To Ourselves. And We Must Be True To Others, Whether They Believe We Are Or Not.

Believe

Being True

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.

America

Enemy

Different

I, 100 Percent Don't Think That's Where The American People At, Because When There's Viral Pictures As A Baby Is In Aleppo With, You Know, Rubble All Over Them Going Viral, And Then There Are Celebrities Tweeting Why Haven't We Done Nothing About This? And Like, Oh, There Are Actually Many People For Years Who've Been Trying To Send Aid Then And This President Won't Let Us.

Baby

Thinking

Years

Understanding Quotes: Their Essence and Application

Quotes, or quotations, are powerful tools in communication, encapsulating ideas, emotions, and wisdom in concise expressions. They serve various purposes across different contexts, from academic writing to everyday conversation.

1. Defining Quotes

A quote is a repetition of someone else's statement or thoughts. It can be a direct replication of words spoken or written by another individual, often used to support arguments, provide evidence, or convey profound insights.

2. The Importance of Quotes

2.1. Enhancing Credibility

Incorporating quotes from authoritative sources can bolster the credibility of your work. By referencing experts or primary sources, you demonstrate thorough research and a solid foundation for your arguments.

2.2. Providing Evidence

Quotes serve as concrete evidence to support claims. In academic and professional writing, they validate points made, offering readers a basis to trust the information presented.

2.3. Conveying Emotions and Perspectives

Quotes can encapsulate emotions and perspectives succinctly. They allow writers to express complex feelings or viewpoints through the words of others, often more eloquently than paraphrasing.

3. Types of Quotes

3.1. Direct Quotes

Direct quotes involve copying the exact words from a source, enclosed in quotation marks. They are used when the original wording is significant or particularly well-expressed.

3.2. Indirect Quotes (Paraphrasing)

Indirect quotes restate the original message in your own words. While not enclosed in quotation marks, they still require proper attribution to the original source.

3.3. Block Quotes

Block quotes are lengthy direct quotations, formatted as a separate block of text. They are typically used for quotes exceeding a certain length, varying by citation style. For instance, in APA style, quotes longer than 40 words are formatted as block quotes.

4. Proper Usage of Quotes

4.1. Contextual Relevance

Ensure that the quote you choose is relevant to the topic and adds value to your content. Avoid inserting quotes solely for decorative purposes.

4.2. Integration into Your Writing

Seamlessly integrate quotes into your writing. Introduce them appropriately and follow up with analysis or commentary to connect them to your main points.

4.3. Attribution and Citation

Always attribute quotes to their original authors and provide proper citations according to the required style guide (APA, MLA, Chicago, etc.).

5. Common Mistakes to Avoid

5.1. Overusing Quotes

Relying too heavily on quotes can overshadow your voice. Use them sparingly to support your arguments, not replace them.

5.2. Lack of Analysis

Presenting a quote without analysis or explanation can leave readers questioning its relevance. Always follow up with your interpretation or discussion.

5.3. Misquoting or Taking Out of Context

Ensure that quotes are accurate and not taken out of context, as this can mislead readers and undermine your credibility.

6. Quotes in Different Contexts

6.1. Academic Writing

In academic writing, quotes are used to support arguments, provide evidence, and engage with existing literature. Proper citation is crucial to avoid plagiarism.

6.2. Journalism

Journalists use quotes to provide firsthand accounts, add authenticity, and present multiple perspectives within a story.

6.3. Literature and Creative Writing

In literature, quotes can be used to convey character voices, themes, and stylistic elements. They enrich narratives and provide depth to storytelling.

7. Punctuation and Formatting

Understanding the correct punctuation and formatting of quotes is essential:

Quotation Marks: Always enclose direct quotes within quotation marks.

Punctuation Placement: In American English, periods and commas are placed inside quotation marks, while colons and semicolons are placed outside.

Block Quotes: For longer quotes, format them as block quotes without quotation marks, and indent the entire block.

8. Ethical Considerations

Ethical use of quotes involves accurate representation, proper attribution, and respect for intellectual property. Misuse can lead to plagiarism, which carries serious academic and professional consequences.

9. Tools for Managing Quotes

Utilize tools like citation generators and plagiarism checkers to manage quotes effectively. These tools help ensure proper formatting and originality in your writing.

Conclusion

Quotes are invaluable in enriching content, providing evidence, and conveying complex ideas succinctly. When used appropriately, they enhance the quality and credibility of your writing. Always ensure relevance, proper integration, and ethical usage to maximize their impact.

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