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On the recordFebruary 19, 2017
If you want to preserve democracy as we know it, you have to have a free and many times adversarial press, and without it, I'm afraid that we would lose so much of our individual liberties over time. That's how dictators get started.
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John McCain
Republican · Arizona

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Senator McCain emphasizes the importance of a free press in preserving democracy and warns against the dangers of authoritarianism.

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