504 Quotes by John McCain

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    I tell the same stories all the time because I like them!

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    When a president makes life and death decisions, he should draw strength and wisdom from broad and deep experience with the reasons for and the risks of committing our children to our defense. For no matter how many others are involved in the decision, the president is a lonely man in a dark room when the casualty reports come in.

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    I thought I'd be president of the United States.

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    When Barack Obama won in 2008, in 2009 I voted for his team because I think that - that the American people wanted him to have his team. But don't think I wasn't worried about it. Really worried.

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    Public life has many more privileges than hardships.

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    Political leaders are not and cannot reasonably be expected to be indifferent to the cruelest calumnies aimed at their character.

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    I'm sick and tired of only being asked about everything that Donald Trump says or does.

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    Giap was a master of logistics, but his reputation rests on more than that. His victories were achieved by a patient strategy that he and Ho Chi Minh were convinced would succeed - an unwavering resolve to suffer immense casualties and the near total destruction of their country to defeat any adversary, no matter how powerful.

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    The French repulsed wave after wave of frontal attacks at Dien Bien Phu. The 1968 Tet offensive against the U.S. was a military disaster that effectively destroyed the Viet Cong. But Giap persisted and prevailed.

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