{"author":"John McCain","author_id":"John+McCain","total_quotes":12,"quotes":[{"text":"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.","author":"John McCain","tags":["today","justice","value "],"id":7824,"author_id":"John+McCain"},{"text":"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.","author":"John McCain","tags":["political","values","free "],"id":14079,"author_id":"John+McCain"},{"text":"I believe in evolution. But I also believe, when I hike the Grand Canyon and see it at sunset, that the hand of God is there also.","author":"John McCain","tags":["sunset","believe","evolution "],"id":45053,"author_id":"John+McCain"},{"text":"I know where a lot of them [the elite or elitists].","author":"John McCain","tags":["elites","elitism","new-york-city","prejudice","washington-dc"],"id":81438,"author_id":"John+McCain"},{"text":"We cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves, from ourselves.","author":"John McCain","tags":["forever","hide","cannot "],"id":168831,"author_id":"John+McCain"},{"text":"As far as this business of solitary confinement goes, the most important thing for survival is communication with someone, even if it's only a wave or a wink, a tap on the wall, or to have a guy put his thumb up. It makes all the difference.","author":"John McCain","tags":["business","survival "],"id":175798,"author_id":"John+McCain"},{"text":"In prison, I fell in love with my country. I had loved her before then, but like most young people, my affection was little more than a simple appreciation for the comforts and privileges most Americans enjoyed and took for granted. It wasn't until I had lost America for a time that I realized how much I loved her. ","author":"John McCain","tags":["appreciation","faith","pow"],"id":185798,"author_id":"John+McCain"},{"text":"On the issue of the gay marriage, I believe if people want to have private ceremonies, that's fine. I do not believe that gay marriages should be legal.","author":"John McCain","tags":["marriage","believe","people "],"id":201255,"author_id":"John+McCain"},{"text":"Ironically for someone who had so long asserted his own individuality as his first and best defense against insults of any kind, I discovered that faith in myself proved to be the least formidable strength I possessed when confronting alone organized inhumanity on a greater scale than I had conceived possible. Faith in myself was important, and remains important to my self esteem. But I discovered in prison that faith in myself alone, sep0arate from other, more important allegiances , was ultimately no match for the cruelty that human beings could devise when they were entirely unencumbered by respect for the God given dignity of man. This is the lesson I learned in prison. It is, perhaps, the most important lesson I have ever learned.","author":"John McCain","tags":["faith"],"id":232401,"author_id":"John+McCain"},{"text":"War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.","author":"John McCain","tags":["fool","reality","fraud "],"id":241123,"author_id":"John+McCain"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":12,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}