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  1. “Well, as you just quoted, being deprived of it is obviously one of the factors, but also the bonds that were forged amongst us, even though I was in solitary confinement for three years, wasn't communicating with each other, keeping each other's spirits up, resisting. Don't break and don't make a confession like they were trying to get us to. It made us appreciate One, love of country, love of our fellow prisoners, and frankly it was the time of my life that I then gave me a certain quality that I don't think I would have ever acquired, and that is that recognize that if you do the right thing, it's going to be all right. And by the way, I haven't always done it.”

    2017-04-02 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 135 - Sen. John McCain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “Lost his arm. And there was something unspoken there between them. So I do think that that mattered some. But by the way, we do have now a generation of senators and House members who were veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan, and that's good for the institution.”

    2017-04-02 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 135 - Sen. John McCain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  3. “You know, David, that is absolutely true because I saw that particularly with Dole and in no way. There was a bond there. Both of them ended up terribly wounded in the same hospital and in a way.”

    2017-04-02 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 135 - Sen. John McCain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  4. “Yes, and I resented, you know, that I had been ever since I'd been that high, you know, he's gone to the Naval Academy. And that carried over into my early days as a devil may care Navy pilot. But I made friends. It was a wonderful life. Some of the happiest times of my life is being in a squadron with 12 airplanes and 16 pilots and the togetherness and the camaraderie. That's the same kind of thing that developed with my fellow POWs.”

    2017-04-02 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 135 - Sen. John McCain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  5. “The bottom of the clasp. I didn't break every rule at the Naval Academy, but there's very few that I missed. And I always came very close. I'd get up to the maximum number of demerits, and then I'd behave for a while until the next cycle. But I loved the Naval Academy. The friends that I made.”

    2017-04-02 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 135 - Sen. John McCain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  6. “Yeah, so typically of May even to this day I rebelled. So when I went to the Naval Academy, I tried to break every rule that was in existence.”

    2017-04-02 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 135 - Sen. John McCain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  7. “Well, of the sense fought, and we would fight, and we would finish the fight and we would put armor on each other and never forget he'd say, we did pretty good, didn't we? Because he divorced personal relationships and personality from the issues. So therefore, if you were friends with Ted Kennedy, that friendship worked. And it also, like with Reagan and O'Neill, when you had an issue, you could sit down and work it out because you had a personal relationship.”

    2017-04-02 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 135 - Sen. John McCain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  8. “Well, you know, Ted was one of the last of those, Ted Kennedy, because it was Bob Dole that said that Ted Kennedy could eviscerate you on the floor in his speech and then come in the cloakroom and convince you that he wasn't talking about you. But you know the thing about Ted Kennedy, the reason why...”

    2017-04-02 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 135 - Sen. John McCain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  9. “Yeah, there were two to repeal and replace it. But back in 2008, the Democrats rammed it through. And so now in 2017, we want to ram it through on a partisan basis. There has been no entitlement ever enacted that wasn't done in a bipartisan basis. And that's what Ronald Reagan did. He stood for what he believed in, but he also believed in relationships. We've got not, I probably shouldn't waste your time with this, but one time O'Neill was with speaking to the Democrat Caucus. Remember the Democrats were in the majority of the first couple years, and this one young Democrat stood up and said, why are you always going over and having drinks with Reagan? Why are you going over there with that? And Tip O'Neill said, because I like him. You know, they liked each other.”

    2017-04-02 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 135 - Sen. John McCain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  10. “That relationship with Tip O'Neill paid off. They both walked out into the Rose Garden and said, we're going to save Social Security and add tough medicine that only both of them together could have administered. Was Ronald Reagan partisan? Was he a proud Republican? Was he a conservative of, in my view, of the most legitimate that I've ever known? But he understood the necessity of us working together. I think it's important to note that Obamacare just collapsed. Why did it collapse? Because it was no report.”

    2017-04-02 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 135 - Sen. John McCain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  11. “The president was very good to me. He and Nancy were both very had a great sentimental streak. And when the prisoners of war came back and he was governor of California, it was amazing the way their hearts went out to us. And so therefore, I spent more time over at the White House than the average freshman congressman and senator. Ronald Reagan was the most inclusive of any conservative that I've ever known. Who is his palate he used to have drinks with? Tip O'Neill, the liberal Democrat. So they had built a relationship. He would spend a lot of time with Democrats both senators and congressmen. He's the one that said if a fella is with me 80% of the time, then I'm with him. When Social Security was about to go bankrupt,”

    2017-04-02 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 135 - Sen. John McCain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  12. “McMaster Kelly Dan Coates, who we all admire and respect as Director of National Intelligence. And I do talk, and Ryan Spriebus was my chairman in 2008 in Wisconsin. I have conversations with them all the time. The vice president, I have conversations with all the time as well. I just have not had two phone calls with the president and they were relatively brief.”

    2017-04-02 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 135 - Sen. John McCain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  13. “I think that the Isolationists are probably still winning, but I also think that some of the realities are becoming apparent. For example, in my state, the finance minister of Mexico told me that Mexico does more business with Arizona than it does with Spain. If you cut off that trade cross-border between Arizona and Sonora, Mexico, I'm telling you, you would have a serious and deep recession. There's a couple hundred thousand jobs that are directly, not indirectly, directly related to our trade with Mexico. And by the way, if we continue with this poisoning of the environment between the United States and Mexico, they're going to elect a far left president, and you think we got problems with Mexico now?”

    2017-04-02 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 135 - Sen. John McCain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  14. “Yes, they do. Country first means do what you can to help your country and our fellow countrymen. America first means whatever you do. America has got to be first in all things. And the difference between isolationism, frankly, and internationalism is just those one word, country America.”

    2017-04-02 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 135 - Sen. John McCain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  15. “I understand that, but Hillary had also stood strong for a long time in favor of it. So when she switched. But you're right. Quote America first. What was the name given to Charles Lindbergh, Henry Ford? There's several other names that spring to mind that were, guess what? America firsters. Pro fascist. Exactly.”

    2017-04-02 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 135 - Sen. John McCain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  16. “Back in the 30s, which led to protectionism, which led over time to it was not the only factor, but it was a major factor in a global economic collapse.”

    2017-04-02 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 135 - Sen. John McCain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  17. “They portray and believe is because of foreign competition. You're right. It has been technology that has caused these jobs to disappear a lot more than trade has. By the way, if I could mention that issue. I've always been very friendly with Hillary Clinton. I've admired her. We've had a very good relationship. We've traveled together. When Hillary Clinton abandoned the TPP, that, in my view, was very harmful for the future because that basically gave the economy of Asia over to China. And in case you missed it in the last couple of days, New Zealand has now made a trade deal with China. China will be going around filling in the vacancy that was created by this American America Firsters. And honestly, Dave, anybody who studies history knows the lessons of the smooth Hawley Tariffs.”

    2017-04-02 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 135 - Sen. John McCain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  18. “Part of it is that we have not recovered from the meltdown of 2008. My own state. Got hit very hard because the importance of housing. You've got these blue collar white middle-aged workers, good honest citizens who never did anything wrong in their lives that have now found themselves with no economic future. And those were the people that were missed by the pollsters, as we all know, in the last election. So I believe economics had a great deal to do with it. I also think that media, honestly, let's be frank. There are certain levels of media that are extreme right, extreme left that you just have different versions of the occurrence of the day. And I think that that has had a polarizing effect, but I would say more than anything else, it is the disappointment that so many Americans, the auto worker, that now watches automobile.”

    2017-04-02 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 135 - Sen. John McCain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  19. “So, first of all, when that happened and the woman made the statement, I knew Barack Obama. I had worked with him in the Senate. In fact, Ted Kennedy had been sort of the guru for both of us. And I knew he was an honest and decent man. And so it wasn't a planned response. It was just as town hall meeting environment that I responded. And as I also said, I had fundamental disagreements with Barack Obama, but this business of destroying people's reputation and integrity, David honestly, it's not good for America. Let me just give you an example right now. We are talking about the United States Supreme Court about 60 votes being required because that's the rules of the Senate. Now we're talking about breaking those rules. Now Harry Reid, when he was the Democratic leader, broke those rules. But I was involved 15, 20 years ago in joining together with Democrats to stop that because that's what makes this”

    2017-04-02 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 135 - Sen. John McCain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source