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Of love, because john reflected love, and love of a strong man. and that is nowadays hard to come by. so his legacy will go on for generations, because people will talk about senator john mccain as one of the greatest heroes in our lifetime. and with that, if you permit me, read timothy 2. as for me, my life is already being poured away as a libation and the time has come for me to depart. i have fought the good fight to the end. i have run the race to the finish. i have kept the faith.

Was giving us the finger. little did he know we both said thats great. we loved that. and john was like, hey, good to see you. good to see you, thank you, thank you. so we went in. he said, sorry about that and went to work. guess what, i think he won that about 85-15 in that election in that precinct. so were going to miss so many things about him here in our state. his leadership here on these important issues. were going to miss his sense of humor. were going to miss his love of sports. he lo...

Spoken to. at 10:00 p.m. the guard walked in and unloosened the ropes. and at about 4:00 a.m., the guard came back and tightened them up again so that he wouldnt get in trouble. and john didnt know why that happened. but he found out a little clue a couple of weeks later right before christmas when he was standing in the dirt yard and that guard just walked up next to him. the guard didnt say a word, but with his sandal he drew a cross in the dirt. they looked at it for a minute, and then the gu...

Same thing. all politics is personal. its all about trust. i trusted john with my life and i would and i think he would trust me with his. we both knew then, from our different experiences that as our life progressed, we learned more, there are times when life can be so cruel, pain so blinding its hard to see anything else. disease that took johns life took our mutual friends, teddy, the exact same disease nine years ago, a couple days ago and three years ago, took my beautiful son beaus life. i...

Ive gotten calls not just because people knew we were friends, not just from people around the country, but leaders around the world calling. im getting all these sympathy letters. i mean, hundreds of them. character is destiny. john had character. while others will miss his leadership, passion, even his stubbornness, you are going to miss that hand on your shoulder. family, you are going to miss the man, faithful man as he was,

To know their hopes and their fears, get to know their family before you meet them, you get to know how they feel about important things. we talked about everything except captivity and the loss of my family that just occurred, my wife and daughter, the only two things we didnt talk about. but, i found that it wasnt too long into johns duties that jill and i got married. jill is here with me today. five years, i had been a single dad and no man deserves one great love, let alone two. i met jill....

Tommy, im running for the u.s. senate, im going to launch blah, blah, blah. you know john, he was going 100 miles an hour. so im like okay. he says i want you to co-chair my campaign. i said, well, john, you know im a democrat. im not sure thats going to help you with your republican campaign. i dont care, youre my friend. i want you to co-chair it. i said, well, let me sleep on it. no. no, no. you give me an answer right now, yes or no. of course i said yes. once again, senator john mccain. goe...

>> my name is joe biden. [laughter] im a democrat. [laughter] and i loved john mccain. i have had the dubious honor over the years of giving some eulogies for a fine women and men, that i have in mind. but this one is hard. the three men who spoke before me capture of john, or aspects of john in a way that only

Comes to your lips before a tear to your eye. thats when you know. and i promise you, i give you my word, i promise you, this i know, that day will come. that day will come. you know, im sure my former colleagues, and all who worked with john, im sure there are people who said to you not only now but the last ten years, explain this guy to me. right? [laughter] explain this guy to me. because as i looked at him, in one sense but i admired, but in one sense, the way things changed in america, the...

John and i ended up traveling and every time i went anywhere, i took john with me or he took me with him. we went to china, japan, russia, germany, france, england, all over the world. tens of thousands of miles. we were sitting on that plane and, late in the night when everyone else was asleep, we would just talk, getting to know one another. we talk about family, we talk about politics, we talk about international relations. we talk about promise, the promise of america. because we were both c...