EMM News Explorer: John McCain

[-said]: A renewed US focus on the Asia-Pacific should not be focused on any one country. The continued peaceful development of China is in our interest,

chinadaily 08-FEB-12

[-said]: With a $15 trillion national debt and record-low approval ratings of Washington,

usaToday 08-FEB-12

[-said]: It’s an option that now should be on the table,

japantoday 08-FEB-12

[-said]: It's an option that now should be on the table,

AP 08-FEB-12

[-conceded]: The situation has deteriorated to where we need to consider every option, including no travel zones, including sanctuaries, including getting the Turks to help the Syrian nationals.

japantoday 08-FEB-12

[-said]: We should start considering options, arming the opposition,

CBSnews 08-FEB-12

[-said]: Good. We welcome him,

AP 08-FEB-12

[-said]: All the options ought to be considered, maybe a no-movement zone, maybe a sanctuary area. But all of those have got to be discussed,

channelnewsasia 07-FEB-12

[-also expressed]: hasn't renounced (its) path toward the acquisition of nuclear weapon.

haaretz 07-FEB-12

[ said]: We are pleased to see increasing sanctions, but so far the Iranians have not been deterred from their course,

nowlebanon 07-FEB-12

[-said]: The last act on defense affairs adopted by the Congress and U.S. Senate makes us competent to provide Georgia with defense weapons. Therefore, I think that our relations are excellent,

trendnews 06-FEB-12

[-said]: A renewed U.S. focus on the Asia-Pacific should not be focused on any one country. The continued peaceful development of China is in our interest,

xinhuanet_en 06-FEB-12

[ said]: Most of all, people want to choose their own leaders,

thetimes 04-FEB-12

[-said]: There's lots of ways you can build confidence without releasing people like that,

latimes 03-FEB-12

[-said]: Let’s not let a domestic issue such as a tax increase interfere with what could be ‘devastating’ in the words of our secretary of defense to our nation’s security,

msnbc 03-FEB-12

[ said]: Let's not rush into judgments we may regret later on,

wsj 03-FEB-12

[-said]: There are many examples of intelligent, well-qualified, patriotic individuals working in our federal government who make significantly less than the top executives at Fannie and Freddie with just as much responsibility,

bloomberg 03-FEB-12

[-said]: We still live in a very dangerous world and everyone agrees that this kind of sequestration cannot take place,

ABCnews 02-FEB-12

[-said]: I believe that the cuts ... aimed at the Department of Defense are a threat to our nation's security and we are opposed to that draconian action,

reuters 02-FEB-12

[-said]: This whole thing is highly questionable because the Taliban know we're leaving. They know we're leaving. Put yourself in their shoes.

cnn 02-FEB-12

[ said]: With our Nation's debt now over $15 trillion, Congress must look at every area of the federal government, big or small, to save money,

panarmenian 01-FEB-12

[ said]: When you have that much money washing around campaigns, there will be scandals,

cnn 01-FEB-12

[-said]: We don't expect miracles, but we do expect progress in the right direction,

irrawaddy 31-JAN-12

[-said]: There is no doubt in my mind, absolutely certain that if this is a free and fair election, there will be no problem coordinating with every other country in the world to bring the sanctions to a close,

irrawaddy 31-JAN-12

[-told]: They (the administration) were going to do it a long time ago, but with our strenuous objections, it's been delayed so far,

news 31-JAN-12

[-said]: of all of our candidates in these debates way up, and uh, look, that detracts from you ability to take on the real opponent, which is Barack Obama,

cnn 30-JAN-12

[-said]: Don’t let me hear on Wednesday morning that you forgot to vote,

WashingtonPost 29-JAN-12

[-said]: I do not understand I do not understand, do you? why anyone would attack a person who’s successful in business, in the free-enterprise system,

WashingtonPost 29-JAN-12

[-recalled]: I was frightened the whole time. Wasn’t [Voight] a threat to America and the world? Jack Bauer killed him three or four times, thank God.

WashingtonPost 29-JAN-12

[-said]: We've had enough of that, and it's time to recognize who the real adversary is and that's not each other,

cnn 29-JAN-12

[ responded]: Communists, most of them,

ABCnews 28-JAN-12

[added:]: It’s time we stop the debates. We’ve had enough 19 of themI’m tired of the mud wrestling, and aren’t you? So let’s stop that and get into the regular campaign because on Tuesday, the state of Florida will send Mitt Romney to the White House.

WashingtonPost 28-JAN-12

[-asked]: What did you think of last night’s debate?

WashingtonPost 28-JAN-12

[ said]: They have turned into performances. I wish they hadn’t,

ABCnews 28-JAN-12

[-said later]: I hope that those who do the questioning would understand what the American people want to hear about because they’re making a judgment,

ABCnews 28-JAN-12

[-said]: If you haven't voted yet go out and get it done. And call your friends, call your friends. The Panhandle will probably have a big effect on how this election turns out. Don't let me hear on Wednesday morning that you forgot to vote,

msnbc 28-JAN-12

[-said]: My friends I know of no one who is more qualified in the private sector in the public sector and as governor he had to work with Democrats and he did effectively and led and achieved his goals. You know, I do not understand,

msnbc 28-JAN-12

[ said]: I’ll tell him, but Mitt’s response will be he doesn’t control the agenda. The moderators are controlling the agenda,

ABCnews 28-JAN-12

[-added]: Very rarely in these things do you see a knockout. You saw one last night. You saw Mitt Romney at his best.

WashingtonPost 28-JAN-12

[said:]: I call on the Egyptian government and the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces to cease the harassment and unwarranted investigations of American NGOs operating in Egypt.

ibtimes 27-JAN-12

[-noted that]: I think, frankly, every candidate should have the right to hold their rallies and their campaign events without being encumbered by people who are representing other campaigns. … I would discourage people from disrupting anyone else’s campaign events.

ABCnews 27-JAN-12

[-said]: I think that the Gingrich campaign is very intelligent in calling it quote the establishment. I’ve never considered myself quote establishment, but I guess that’s the only defense you have when you see such large numbers of Republican leaders coming over to the Romney campaign,

ABCnews 27-JAN-12

[-said]: Under Speaker Gingrich, when I was in the House and the Senate, earmarks exploded,

ABCnews 27-JAN-12

[-mentioned]: prickly personality.

WashingtonPost 27-JAN-12

[ said]: I’ve puzzled over that,

irrawaddy 27-JAN-12

[-said]: Bobby Jindal, the governor of Louisiana, had a similar exchange with the president,

upi 27-JAN-12

[-told]: Because someone debates well does not mean necessarily they would be a good president,

ABCnews 27-JAN-12

[-said]: Too bad for Channel 9. That’s it,

ABCnews 27-JAN-12

[-told]: I think debate performances are important,

ABCnews 27-JAN-12

[ said]: Straight talk. Marco Rubio,

ABCnews 27-JAN-12

[-said]: No, because it’s a scheme, obviously, that you are not paying for your present retirement. You are paying for present retirees,

ABCnews 27-JAN-12

[-said]: I think you know we had a very spirited primary in 2008 and it should’ve been. Primaries are spirited and they’re not bean bag,

ABCnews 27-JAN-12

[-said]: I think we ought to send Newt Gingrich to the moon and Mitt Romney to the White House,

ABCnews 27-JAN-12

[-said]: I’m deeply concerned about the fact that the tenor of these quote debates are now just insulting one another. They’re driving up disapproval ratings of all of them and will harm us in our effort to win the presidency, and the president sitting on the sidelines and watching has gained from it.

ABCnews 27-JAN-12

[-said]: I never looked at his tax returns,

npr 27-JAN-12

[-said]: I am deeply concerned that the size and scope of these cuts would repeat the mistakes of history and leave our forces too small to respond effectively to events that may unfold over the next few years,

montrealgazette 27-JAN-12

[said:]: I call on the Egyptian government and the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces to cease the harassment and unwarranted investigations of American NGOs. This crisis has escalated to the point that it now endangers the lives of American citizens and could set back the long-standing partnership between the United States and Egypt.

scmp 27-JAN-12

[-said]: dramatically expanded on Newt Gingrich's watch,

cnn 26-JAN-12

[-said]: I deeply regret that this crisis has escalated to the point that it now endangers the lives of American citizens and could set back the longstanding partnership between the United States and Egypt,

montrealgazette 26-JAN-12

[-told]: You have one family throwing in $10 million into a primary race,

bloomberg 26-JAN-12

[-said]: He could not have been re-elected as speaker of the House, and his leadership style was a major factor in giving him lack of support for re-election as speaker,

cnn 26-JAN-12

[-told]: All I can say is that I was there,

WashingtonPost 25-JAN-12

[-told]: The president can act on some, Congress has to act on some,

news 25-JAN-12

[ said]: We could act fairly soon,

news 25-JAN-12

[-said]: I don’t think that historians are well-enough paid, but I’m impressed that a historian would be paid by Freddie Mac some $25,000 a month, totaling about $1.6 million,

WashingtonPost 25-JAN-12

[-told]: It's very harmful to Republicans because of instead of presenting their views, their policies and their proposals — it's all gotcha, it's all gotcha,

AP 24-JAN-12

[said that:]: sounded a lot like socialism

japantimes 24-JAN-12

[-told]: If you had asked me during my last visit here whether I could envision the Congress lifting all sanctions against this country, I would have said that such a scenario seemed faint and distant,

mizzima 24-JAN-12

[ said]: Debates have taken on an inordinate influence on this whole situation,

usaToday 24-JAN-12

[-said]: He's got to stay on offense, he can't play defense,

usaToday 24-JAN-12

[ said]: There's certain weapons systems that the Vietnamese would like to buy from us or receive from us and we'd like to be able to transfer these systems to them, but it's not going to happen unless they improve their human rights record,

irrawaddy 23-JAN-12

[-told]: We don't expect miracles, but we do expect progress in the right direction.

irrawaddy 23-JAN-12

[said:]: We do not expect perfection, but at the same time we do not expect one step to mean that we treat them like Sweden,

irrawaddy 23-JAN-12

[ said]: and possibly not even then if enough progress isn't made

reliefWeb 23-JAN-12

[ said]: The State Dept. and the embassy here say they have raised it at the highest level,

reliefWeb 23-JAN-12

[ said]: I've puzzled over that,

reliefWeb 23-JAN-12

[ said]: Obviously we will have to look carefully at the process of the elections,

reliefWeb 23-JAN-12

[ added]: We'd like to see a commitment by the government to improving the lives of the people,

reliefWeb 23-JAN-12

[-said]: We should all applaud what has happened in Burma , but there are many cases in history where we got a little bit too optimistic and found out that it isn't quite what we hoped it would be,

asianewsnet 22-JAN-12

[cited:]: backward movement

voanews 22-JAN-12

[-said]: There are so many forced labourers, there have been so many practices against ethnic minorities - on one side they have a cease-fire, while on the other side there is brutality practised against minorities,

asianewsnet 22-JAN-12

[ said]: specifically stated to the Vietnamese that our security relationship will be directly impacted by the human rights issues

thenews 22-JAN-12

[ said]: We have visited , we are here, we are going to Myanmar tomorrow morning,

csmonitor 22-JAN-12

[-said]: We are not saying we would dictate the result of the election... but we would reward the result of a free and fair election,

asianewsnet 22-JAN-12

[-added]: And certainly lifting of the sanctions, or some of them, would be part of that consideration,

dailytimesPK 20-JAN-12

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