“a stunning failure of leadership”
“This budget is the epitome of 'America Last.'”
“We are unstoppable.”
“Everything will get better.”
“I vowed not to let Israel or America’s friends in the Persian Gulf 'get hurt or fail in any way, shape, or form.'”
“I’m popular”

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On the recordMarch 7, 2016
This emerging vacuum has been filled by the most extreme and anti-American of forces: Sunni terrorist groups, such as Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant [ISIL] and al Qaeda; Shiite extremists, such as the Islamic Republic of Iran and its proxies; and the imperial ambitions of Putin.
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John McCain
Republican · Arizona
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McCain discusses the rise of extremist forces in the Middle East.

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