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The problem... is that most members of Congress don't pay attention to what's going on.
John McCain
Attention
Congress
You cannot tell the enemy you're going to leave and expect the enemy to not - and expect to succeed. I mean, that's just a fundamental of warfare.
John McCain
Enemy
Succeed
Only the most deluded of us could doubt the necessity of this war.
John McCain
War
Doubt
Necessity
The first pork-barrel bill that crosses my desk, I'm going to veto it and make the authors of those pork-barrel items famous all over America.
John McCain
America
Famous
First
We must win in Iraq. If we withdraw, there will be chaos; there will be genocide; and they will follow us home.
John McCain
Home
Chaos
Genocide
Iraq
Will
We know that Medicare's going broke in seven years, but we need to start over.That's what the American people want us to do.
John McCain
People
American
Want
Years
We cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves, from ourselves.
John McCain
Truth
The way you have bipartisan negotiations, you sit down across the table, as we did with Ted Kennedy, as I've done with many other members, and you say, 'OK, here's what I want, here's what you want. We'll adhere to your principles, but we'll make concessions.'
John McCain
Principles
Want
The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness that only a few malcontents, lunatics generally, ever dare to threaten them.
John McCain
Society
Values
Consciousness
The American people want us to stop spending. And so let's just give them some certainty. Let's extend the tax - the existing tax cuts. And then let's give some more tax breaks to small businesses and large. And then maybe the American people will have some confidence.
John McCain
People
American
Certainty
Confidence
Tax
Tax cuts
Want
Will
Thank God for our form of government. The media won't let there be any cover-up.
John McCain
God
Government
Media
Remember the words of Chairman Mao: 'It's always darkest before it's totally black.'.
John McCain
Words
Our political differences, now matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding convictions.
John McCain
Founding
Now
Our armed forces will fight for peace in Iraq, a peace built on more secure foundations than are found today in the Middle East. Even more important, they will fight for two human conditions of even greater value than peace: liberty and justice.
John McCain
Peace
Fight
Iraq
Justice
Liberty
Today
Value
Will
War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.
John McCain
War
Fool
Fraud
Reality