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Cheering, and cheering, and cheering and chanting words of welcome and thanks. and the two words they chanted most were john mccain. what is most remarkable about these two stories, and i could tell you many more, is how unremarkable they are. and that's because the name john mccain, based on the actions of the man john mccain had become a source of hope and inspiration for oppressed people throughout the world. as it was aid source of security for allied countries that share our values. one last story. one of john's favorite cities in the world was jerusalem. and one of his favorite things to...

He also fought and lost some big battles. to stop climate change, to close the gun show loophole, to broadly reform our immigration laws. but that nerve seemed to get him down or diminish his ardor for the next battle. he loved aid just cause, even if it didn't ksucceed. overall, he won more than he lost and all of his wins were achieved with bipartisan support. in 2008, when john was the republican nominee for president, he had this far-out idea of asking a democrat to be his running made. can you believe that? let me explain it to you. as he did. when he first talked to me about it, i said, ...

He ultimately turned these interfaith experiences into a truly hilarious comedy routine. it began with a solemn pronouncement by john that he was converting to judaism. then he explained much less solemnly, i do this not because of any particular liking for the religion, it's just that for so many years i've had to go along with all of joe's religious nonsense, i might as well convert and get the benefits. one of his favorite targets was the sabbath elevators in israeli hotels which are preprogrammed to stop at every floor. you know, john had many virtues, but patience was not one of them. the...

And, again, these words were not just rhetoric for john. he acted on them. he lived them. in our travels around the world, i can tell you he always reassured our allies and unsettled our enemies. standing for america's best values, attacking totalitarian governments, whether in moscow, tehran, pyongyang or anyone where else. if we were going to a country that was not fully free, john insisted that we meet with the local human rights activists as well as the government. i will never forget that day in myanmar during the military dictatorship there. we met three men who had just been released fr...

Election as an independent, i'm still a registered democrat. and john's response was direct and really ennobling. that's the point, joe, he said with a certain impatience. you're a democrat. i'm a republican. we could give our country the bipartisan leadership it needs for a change. when john returned to the senate after his surgery last summer and voted against the republican health care bill, some people accused him of being disloyal to his party and the. the. but that was not the case. if you listen to the speech he gave that day, you'll know it was not the case. that speech made clear that...