If we don’t pass [healthcare reform] I don’t know what differentiates us from the other guys. It’s nice to believe good things, but no one keeps their home, or pays for their doctor visit, because Democrats believe good things. If anyone is searching for an answer to the lessons of Massachusetts, I promise you, it’s not to do nothing.
10-2006 McCain: “The day that the leadership of the military comes to me and says, ‘Senator, we ought to change the policy,’ then I think we ought to consider seriously changing it,” McCain said in October 2006 to an audience of Iowa State University students.
2010 McCain: [Gates told the Armed Services Committee, “I fully support the president’s decision.”] In response, McCain declared himself “disappointed” in the testimony. “At this moment of immense hardship for our armed services, we should not be seeking to overturn the ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy,” he said bluntly, before describing it as “imperfect but effective.”
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