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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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Let's go back to square one. Let's sit down together and get this issue resolved.
Health care reform (2009)
I have often observed that I am the luckiest person on Earth. I feel that way even now as I prepare for the end of my life.
Farewell statement (2018)
I am prepared. I need no on-the-job training. I wasn't a mayor for a short period of time. I wasn't a governor for a short period of time.
I was concerned about a couple of steps that the Russian government took in the last several days. One was reducing the energy supplies to Czechoslovakia.
We have drawn down to pre-surge levels.
I was in a conference in Germany over the weekend and president Putin of Germany gave one of the old Cold War style speeches.
Let me say that no one has supported President Bush on Iraq more than I have.
Why should you shake hands with somebody who's keeping Americans in prison? I mean, what's the point? Neville Chamberlain shook hands with Hitler.
I hate war. It's terrible beyond imagination.
The day that the leadership of the military comes to me and says, 'Senator, we ought to change the policy,' then I think we ought to consider seriously changing it.
Maybe 100. As long as Americans are not being injured or harmed or wounded or killed, it's fine with me and I hope it would be fine with you if we maintain a presence in a very volatile part of the world where al-Qaeda is training, recruiting, equipping and motivating people every single day.
I'm going to be honest: I know a lot less about economics than I do about military and foreign policy issues. I still need to be educated.
My fellow Americans. No association ever mattered more to me.
The Restless Wave (2018)
While our Party has bestowed upon him the nomination, it is not accompanied by unfettered license to defame those who are the best among us.
Statement regarding the Khan family (2016)
Let me just say again, We have drawn down. Three of the five brigades are home. The Marines, the additional Marines are home. By the end of July, they will have been back.
Our troops are doing everything we ask of them, but we must ask ourselves: Are we doing everything we can for them? The answer, I say with profound sadness, is we are not.
National Defense Authorization bill (2016)
The -- the constant partisan rancor that stops us from solving these problems isn't a cause. It's a symptom. It's what happens when people go to Washington to work for themselves and not for you.
We face many dangerous threats in this dangerous world, but I'm not afraid of them. I'm prepared for them.
I want to urge Americans, for as long as I can, to remember that this shared devotion to human rights is our truest heritage and our most important loyalty.
The Restless Wave (2018)
Neither party should be defined by pandering to the outer reaches of American politics and the agents of intolerance, whether they be Louis Farrakhan and Al Sharpton on the left, or Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell on the right.
Address at Virginia Beach (2000)
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