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> # \[I\]n the words of Chairman Mao, 'It's darkest before it's totally black.'

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## More from John McCain

1. > I don't know if I would want him as vice president. He and I have the same strengths. But to serve in other capacities? Hell, yeah.

[Permalink to quote \#19](https://quotesby.net/John-McCain/19/ "Permalink to quote 19")
2. > Contracting a fatal disease.

[Permalink to quote \#21](https://quotesby.net/John-McCain/21/ "Permalink to quote 21")
3. > They're the government; sooner or later we are going to have to deal with them, one way or another, and I understand why this administration and previous admin…

[Permalink to quote \#18](https://quotesby.net/John-McCain/18/ "Permalink to quote 18")

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