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John McCain
Age: 81 †
Born: 1936
Born: August 29
Died: 2018
Died: August 25
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John Sidney McCain III
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War is awful. Nothing, not the valor with which it is fought nor the nobility of the cause it serves, can glorify war. War is wretched beyond description and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality. Whatever is won in war, it is loss the veteran remembers.
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It's a fundamental aspect of the free enterprise system and economics: If there's no penalty associated with increased costs, why not lay on increased costs?
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There are 11 million people living in the shadows. I believe they deserve to come out of the shadows. The children who are brought here when they were children, they deserve that kind of consideration as well.
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That's Joe Biden right there - unbowed, unbroken and unable to stop talking.
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I asked that I not be considered for vice president of the United States.
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In 2003, I warned of a 'creeping coup' in Russia against the forces of democracy and market capitalism in Russia.
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Arizona may be the only state in America where mothers don't tell their children that someday, they can grow up and be president of the United States.
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What is good for my country is good for my party, Should my party abandon this principle, the American people will abandon us.
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