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I tell the same stories all the time because I like them!

Public life has many more privileges than hardships.

On 'don't ask, don't tell' I was always the same. I said we needed a complete review of the impact on morale and battle effectiveness of 'don't ask, don't tell' before we repeal it. That's my position now. Now they're trying to ram through a repeal without a - any kind of really realistic survey done.

For much of my life, the Navy was the only world I knew. It is still the world I know best and love most.

Civic participation over a lifetime, working in neighborhoods and communities and service of all kinds - military and civilian, full-time and part-time, national and international - will strengthen America's civic purpose.

For Mr. Putin, vacillation invites aggression. His world is a brutish, cynical place, where power is worshiped, weakness is despised, and all rivalries are zero-sum.

My record shows that I have put my country first, and I follow the philosophy and traditions of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan.

I know from personal experience that the abuse of prisoners will produce more bad than good intelligence.

Putin wants to restore the Russian empire. That's his ambition; he's stated it many times.

On the subject of Osama bin Laden... we will track him down. We will capture him. We will bring him to justice, and I will follow him to the gates of hell.

America's greatest strength has always been its hopeful vision of human progress.

In the real world, as lived and experienced by real people, the demand for human rights and dignity, the longing for liberty and justice and opportunity, the hatred of oppression and corruption and cruelty is reality.

If you want to preserve - I'm very serious now - if you want to preserve democracy as we know it, you have to have a free and many times adversarial press. And without it, I am afraid that we would lose so much of our individual liberties over time. That's how dictators get started.

During one period while I was in solitary, I memorized the names of all 335 of the men who were then prisoners of war in North Vietnam. I can still remember them.

Countries, not just their armies, win wars.

Government should take care of those in America who can't care for themselves. That's a role of government.

I used to write books and plays in my mind, but I doubt that any of them would have been above the level of the cheapest dime novel.

On Putin's order, Russian security services try to destabilize NATO allies the U.S. has sworn to defend.

Depriving the oppressed of a beacon of hope could lose us the world we have built and thrived in. It could cost our reputation in history as the nation distinct from all others in our achievements, our identity, and our enduring influence on mankind. Our values are central to all three.

I don't think anybody is - no one could compare to Ronald Reagan, because he was the right man at the right time.

I admire the Islam. There's a lot of good principles in it.