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John McCain
@johnmccain· Republican · AZ· Jan 17, 2008

My friends, what we need to do to start with before we go any further is stop the out of control spending.

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John McCain
@johnmccain· Republican · AZ· Jan 17, 2008

My friends, what we need to do to start with, before we go any further, is stop the out-of-control spending.

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John McCain
@johnmccain· Republican · AZ· Jan 17, 2008

What we need to do to start with, before we go any further, is stop the out-of-control spending.

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John McCain
@johnmccain· Republican · AZ· Jan 16, 2008

Stop the outrageous pork-barrel spending. The president just signed into law a bill that had $17 billion of pork-barrel spending in it. Stop that, and stop it now.

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John McCain
@johnmccain· Republican · AZ· Jan 16, 2008

We have a truth squad. We -- most of this is -- interestingly, I'm told, is coming from outside of South Carolina.

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John McCain
@johnmccain· Republican · AZ· Jan 16, 2008

Yes, I have a truth squad. Most of this is, interestingly, I'm told is coming from outside of South Carolina.

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John McCain
@johnmccain· Republican · AZ· Jan 16, 2008

You know that a lot of nasty things are going on. Ignore that kind of stuff.

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John McCain
@johnmccain· Republican · AZ· Jan 16, 2008

If you cut taxes now, if we don't make them permanent, then, on every family and every business in America, it will have the impact of a tax increase.

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John McCain
@johnmccain· Republican · AZ· Jan 16, 2008

I say read 'The New York Times.' Read to -- listen and talk to the people that -- a guy came up, and he said he had 11 phone calls today attacking me on every aspect of my life and character.

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John McCain
@johnmccain· Republican · AZ· Jan 16, 2008

First, make the tax cut permanents, so that people will have some certainty about their financial future.

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John McCain
@johnmccain· Republican · AZ· Jan 16, 2008

I say read 'The New York Times,' read it and listen and talk to the people that guy came up and he said he had 11 phone calls attacking me on every aspect of my life and character.

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John McCain
@johnmccain· Republican · AZ· Jan 16, 2008

On the campaign trail, it is getting dirty out there. With just two days to go before the South Carolina primary, John McCain gets a major dose of deja vu. Just like in 2000, Senator McCain is the target of dirty politics. This time…

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John McCain
@johnmccain· Republican · AZ· Jan 16, 2008

If you're going to have this kind of spending, then we're never going to have a stable economy.

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Barack Obama
@barackobama· Democratic · IL· Jan 16, 2008

I will be the president who finally makes health care affordable to every single American.

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Hillary Clinton
@hillaryclinton· Democratic · NY· Jan 16, 2008

I really had to dig down deep and think hard about what was right for me, what was right for my family. And I never -- I never doubted Bill's love for me, ever.

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