
I believe that we have to succeed. Otherwise, this country will have much greater problems than anything to do with my political ambitions.
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I believe that we have to succeed. Otherwise, this country will have much greater problems than anything to do with my political ambitions.

John McCain is thinking twice about comments that he made in Iraq last Sunday.

What has happened over last several weeks is unacceptable. What we have found is a threat to the lives of pets -- dogs and cats -- across America. A threat that should have been minimized and maybe even avoided.

What's happened over the last several weeks is unacceptable. What we have found is a threat to the lives of pets, dogs and cats, across America, a threat that should have been minimized and maybe even avoided.

I've been a hunter pretty much all of my life. I never really shot anything terribly big.

you could make a case that articles of impeachment might be appropriate, but ladies and gentlemen, politics is the art of the possible, not the constitutional.

What I think is that we need to negotiate with the president from a position of strength. We are now a Democratic majority.

The president has said he will veto that. And I challenge him to reconsider that.

Well, the president has a swagger, and he has -- he's been very uncompromising. And that's the reason we're in the quagmire we're in, in Iraq. He should become in tune with the fact that he is president of the United States, not king of…

I do not believe there should be a single drop of American blood, additional blood, shed in Iraq. I do not believe there should be another head injury in Iraq of an American soldier. Let the Iraqis handle their own country.

We've got a war that I believe should have never been authorized and should have never been waged.

I obey the cardinal rule of any politician, and that is to ask you all for your vote.

And we will then review the situation and if you have not initiated the withdrawal at that point, then we may put you on an even shorter leash, right?

I think when you have a company that discovers a problem that's killing animals and they don't report it for three weeks to the Food and Drug Administration, it is, at best, gross negligence.

I think we better be well prepared to defend the Option ARM portfolio.

The American people are not getting the full picture of what's happening here. They're not getting the full picture of the drop in murders, the establishment of security outposts throughout the city, the situation in Anbar Province, the…

Senator McCain says parts of Baghdad are safe enough to walk around in.

I don't think it was a small matter. And I think the attorney general -- I'm disappointed he didn't remember that in his statement.