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John McCain
Age: 81 †
Born: 1936
Born: August 29
Died: 2018
Died: August 25
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Rogue states are the main threat to peace and freedom, and they require a strong, comprehensive policy response - a policy that I call 'rogue state rollback,' in which our goal is not simply to contain rogue regimes, but to drive them from power.
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Just stop at one of these construction sites and look and see who those workers are. They're all Hispanic ... And I bet you they're illegal.
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I said, 'The nice thing about Alzheimer's is you get to hide your own Easter eggs.'
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That's Joe Biden right there - unbowed, unbroken and unable to stop talking.
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It seems to me that President Carter has earned his place as if not the worst president in history, the worst president of the 20th Century.
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The question is not whether you would like to be president or not. The question is: Do you think you can win and do you want to run? And none of those are clear to me.
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Katrina did not declare a truce on Iraq.
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My hero is a guy named Teddy Roosevelt. Teddy Roosevelt used to say, walk softly, talk softly but carry a big stick.
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I cannot in good conscience vote in favor of tax cuts, irrespective of their size, or to which segment of the population they are targeted. Nor can I support any spending increases that are not related to improving our nation's defense from the obvious and serious threats facing us today.
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Russia has now become a nation fueled by petro-dollars that is basically a KGB apparatchik-run government.
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All interested parties must be willing to make significant sacrifices.
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