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John McCain

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John McCain was a prominent American politician and military officer who served as a United States Senator from Arizona from 1987 until his death in 2018. A member of the Republican Party, McCain was known for his bipartisan approach and commitment to national security. He was a veteran of the Vietnam War, where he was a prisoner of war for over five years, an experience that shaped his political career and views on military and foreign policy.

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Feb 25, 2014

Allowing Americans to evade their tax obligations through hidden offshore accounts deprives our government of needed revenue.

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Feb 25, 2014

There was no Democrat or Republican pride in authorship. They appeared together every time they did any kind of press so that they would be on message together.

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Feb 25, 2014

I can't give enough credit to the 9/11 families who participated in the birth of the 9/11 Commission and how it got through Congress.

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Feb 25, 2014

We saw 2,977 human beings killed in a matter of hours and that motivation, that attack by Al Qaeda, that devastation and death really motivated the ten members of the Commission every day to work toward bipartisan solutions.

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Feb 19, 2014

It's like any other evil. It's grown and grown and grown, and it's now become a real embarrassment.

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Feb 19, 2014

Since 2012 the president now more than 50 percent of his nominees have been these bundlers and totally unqualified people.

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Feb 17, 2014

When is the United States of America going to show some leadership? When is the president of the United States going to look at history and say, what -- how is history going to judge me and -- this country when we've we simply did not…

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Feb 17, 2014

The president of the United States who said, you know, it wasn't a matter of whether but when that Bashar al-Assad would leave... that was before 5,000 Hezbollah came in.

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Feb 17, 2014

Doing nothing, which is basically what we've done, Anderson, is the worst of all options.

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Feb 17, 2014

I would be inclined to support such a thing depending on a lot of the details.

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Feb 10, 2014

When you consider the humanitarian disaster... it is an apocalyptic disaster.

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Feb 10, 2014

The premise of Geneva 1 was the transition of Bashar Assad from power and that is very unlikely.

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Feb 10, 2014

The longer this goes on, really, and the more foreign fighters that go in, et cetera, et cetera, the more likely there is a greater and greater threat actually to the United States of America; would you agree?

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Feb 10, 2014

Finally, I guess as my time runs out, it's a little difficult for a Syrian mother to differentiate whether her child has been killed by a chemical weapon or starved to death or by a conventional weapon; would you agree?

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Feb 10, 2014

The departure of Bashar Assad is inevitable.

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Feb 10, 2014

President Assad remains unwilling to negotiate himself out of power.

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Feb 10, 2014

Syria and Iraq have become an al Qaeda training ground and transit point back and forth for al Qaeda and al Qaeda-affiliated groups?

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Jan 29, 2014

This is an important agreement and one that we should support and one that I think will pay a benefit to us in more ways than one.

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Jan 29, 2014

I believe that this agreement is not a perfect agreement, and we focused on the technical details.

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Jan 29, 2014

This agreement is another step in what has evolved into a partnership between the United States and Vietnam.

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Jan 29, 2014

There has been dramatic improvement in Vietnamese behavior and in our relationship since we normalized relations.

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Jan 29, 2014

The Vietnamese are still guilty of human rights abuses, much to my dismay.

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Jan 29, 2014

I hope that should surprise none of us that we have the highest standards.

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