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1936–2018 United States
John Sidney McCain III (29 August 1936 - 25 August 2018) was an American politician, statesman, and United States Navy officer who served as a United States Senator for Arizona from 1987 until his death in 2018. He previously served two terms in the United States House of Representatives and was the Republican nominee for president of the United States in the 2008 election, which he lost to Barack Obama.
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War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.
We're no longer staring into the abyss of defeat and we can now look ahead to the genuine prospect of success.
America is the greatest force for good in the history of the world.
I think they put some lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig.
Only a fool or a fraud talks tough or romantically about war.
America, the only nation ever founded in the name of liberty, never had a more ardent champion of liberty than Barry Goldwater. Simply put, Barry Goldwater was in love with freedom.
Americans are very frustrated, and they have every right to be. We’ve wasted a lot of our most precious treasure, which is American lives.
I will not take the low road to the highest office in this land. I want the presidency in the best way, not the worst way.
I hate the gooks. I will hate them as long as I live.
There is nothing that's off the table. I have my positions and I'll articulate them. But nothing's off the table.
I'm glad whenever they cut interest rates, I wish interest rates were zero.
I looked into his eyes and saw three letters: a 'K', a 'G', and a 'B'.
Today’s press conference in Helsinki was one of the most disgraceful performances by an American president in memory.
Maybe that’s a way of killing them.
I don't know if you could ever say, quote "mission accomplished," as much as you could say "Americans are out of harm's way."
Anybody who believes the surge has not succeeded, militarily, politically and in most other ways, frankly, does not know the facts on the ground.
Each side should make its own case, but do so without making up its own facts.
At least I don't plaster on the makeup like a trollop, you cunt.
No prior president has ever abased himself more abjectly before a tyrant.
Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno.
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