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John McCain
@johnmccain· Republican · AZ· Sep 23, 2008

Look, we're suspending the campaign. This is an altruistic move. This is above politics.

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John McCain
@johnmccain· Republican · AZ· Sep 23, 2008

Tomorrow morning, I'll suspend my campaign and return to Washington after speaking at the Clinton Global Initiative.

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John McCain
@johnmccain· Republican · AZ· Sep 22, 2008

There must be a path for taxpayers to recover the money that's put into this fund, the taxpayers dollars, $1 trillion is an unprecedented sum. And that money can't simply go into a black hole of bad debt with no means of recovering any of…

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John McCain
@johnmccain· Republican · AZ· Sep 22, 2008

My plan is about keeping American people in their homes and safeguarding the life savings of all Americans by protecting our financial system and capital markets.

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John McCain
@johnmccain· Republican · AZ· Sep 22, 2008

If you are able to increase the budget and the size of government by 40 percent, don't you think you could cut some of it?

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John McCain
@johnmccain· Republican · AZ· Sep 22, 2008

Oh, easy. Look, if you were able to increase the budget and the size of government by 40 percent, don't you think you could cut some of it?

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John McCain
@johnmccain· Republican · AZ· Sep 21, 2008

We can't have taxpayers footing the bill for bloated golden parachutes. We need to put our country first and focus on what's best for Main Street. It's the excess and greed of Washington and Wall Street that got us in this situation to…

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John McCain
@johnmccain· Republican · AZ· Sep 21, 2008

Let me offer a little advance warning to the big-spending, greedy, do-nothing, me-first, country-second crowd in Washington and on Wall Street: Change is coming. Change is coming to a neighborhood near you.

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John McCain
@johnmccain· Republican · AZ· Sep 21, 2008

... of Washington and Wall Street that got us in this situation to start with.

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John McCain
@johnmccain· Republican · AZ· Sep 21, 2008

Well, let me offer a little advance warning to the big spending greedy do-nothing me-first, country-second crowd in Washington, and on Wall Street, change is coming, change is coming to a neighborhood near you.

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John McCain
@johnmccain· Republican · AZ· Sep 18, 2008

Senator McCain making quotation marks -- something we've outlawed on this show -- with his hands during a speech on the country's financial crisis in Wisconsin today.

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John McCain
@johnmccain· Republican · AZ· Sep 18, 2008

the massive financial rescue plan, the mother of all bailouts, now heading to Congress.

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John McCain
@johnmccain· Republican · AZ· Sep 18, 2008

McCain on the attack. Obama trying to make the economic issue his own and counterattacking, as well.

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John McCain
@johnmccain· Republican · AZ· Sep 18, 2008

Maybe, just this once, he could spare us the lectures and admit to his own poor judgment in contributing to these problems.

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John McCain
@johnmccain· Republican · AZ· Sep 18, 2008

Government has a clear responsibility to act and to defend the public interest. That's exactly what I intend to do.

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John McCain
@johnmccain· Republican · AZ· Sep 18, 2008

Maybe just this once, he could spare us the lectures and admit to his own poor judgment in contributing to these problems.

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John McCain
@johnmccain· Republican · AZ· Sep 18, 2008

An early intervention program to help financial institutions avoid bankruptcy expensive bailouts and damage to their customers.

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John McCain
@johnmccain· Republican · AZ· Sep 18, 2008

McCain on the economic offensive. Is he scoring points or is this an issue Obama and Democrats can't lose?

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