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The role of the vice president is to break ties in the Senate and inquire daily into the health of the president.

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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
John S. McCain
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I have no rancor. I look forward, not backwards.
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I actually think if the American people understood what was going on instead of just being told tidbits by this administration, they would actually be a lot more supportive of the boots on the ground.
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[While] the primary responsibility, as we all acknowledge, (falls) with the family, ... Our homes, our families, our children's minds are being flooded by a tide of violence.
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Hillary [Clinton] saying we're never going to put boots on the ground in Iraq, we never going to put boots on the ground in Syria petrified me, simply because, why - what if this continues despite out of control.
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Events are moving fast in my campaign, and yes, it's true that this morning I've dismissed my entire team of senior advisers. All of their positions will now be held by a man named 'Joe the Plumber.'
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I appreciate our government's determination to investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of the Bytyqi brothers, which Serbia's Interior Minister has rightly called 'an exceptionally serious crime,' and hope the Serbian government's pledge of full cooperation... is matched by a final accounting of their murder.
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And the people who live in the southern part of my state do not have a secure environment. To wit, there are signs that the government put up that say, Warning. You are in a drug smuggling area and a human smuggling area.
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I'm very optimistic about my home state of Arizona...
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[Vladimir] Putin supporting Bashar al-Assad, helping with the Syrian refugee crisis and, I think for any republican, he [Donald Trump] has got to stop saying this, because I was with him. I was with him and he said that, it was like, I'm out. I'm out. It's too crazy.
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I can't believe a guy that handsome wouldn't have some impact.
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I am proud to do so for I know that by supporting George W. Bush, I serve my country well.
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Americans want to win bin Laden thinks he's winning now.
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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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I guess he believes if a lie is big enough and repeated often enough, it will be believed.
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We can't cut and run.
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I think that Joe Biden is qualified in many respects. But I do point out that he's been wrong on many foreign policy and national security issues, which is supposed to be his strength.
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There's one big difference between me and the others - I won't take every last dime of the surplus and spend it on tax cuts that mostly benefit the wealthy. I'll use the bulk of the surplus to secure Social Security far into the future to keep our promise to the greatest generation.
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