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McCain(s) on Ambition

By The Daily Dish
Jul 22 2008, 10:34 AM ET

By Jessie Roberts

"Putting the Country First", July 4, 2008:


Patriotism is deeper than its symbolic expressions, than sentiments about place and kinship that move us to hold our hands over our hearts during the national anthem. It is putting the country first, before party or personal ambition, before anything.

Worth The Fighting For, p. 373, published September 2002:


I didn't decide to run for president to start a national crusade for the political reforms I believed in or to run a campaign as if it were some grand act of patriotism. In truth, I wanted to be president because it had become my ambition to be president.


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