“We’ve certainly needed John McCain’s voice over the past year and despite the circumstances, we’ve had it,” Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) said. “And I think we could do with this kind of approach to politics and we’d do well to remember John McCain and his legacy as we go forward. I know that’s what he would like.”
"He would quickly forgive and move on and to see the good in his opponents, that is something that particularly these days we could use a lot more of."
“I think that that would be a fitting tribute,” Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) said on CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday. “There are many other things that we need to do but that's a good one.
“I think it would be a great tribute, because then for decades to come, everyone who came to Washington would know the very special place that John McCain held – has held and will continue to hold in our country,” she said.
Former Sen. New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R) on Sunday said she hopes John McCain’s death serves as “a calling for more decency, integrity and honor in our politics.”
The 2016 Democratic presidential nominee said on NBC's "Meet the Press" that McCain knew how important it was for politicians to work together, and to trust each other.
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) on Sunday praised John McCain for what Durbin called “uncommon decency” during his time as a senator, pointing to moments such as McCain's defense of former President Barack Obama on the campaign trail.
“All of a sudden, he pointed to the two of us and said, ‘You two are right,’" she said, referring to herself and Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska). "And that’s when I knew he was going to vote no.”
“We don’t want to be as reckless with the facts as he is,” Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) said. “I think having thorough investigations, putting forth an impenetrable case, doing it in a bipartisan way is the proper way to do this, but we’re not there yet.”
President Trump’s approval rating has held steady in a new survey, despite the conviction of his former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, on eight counts and his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, pleading guilty to felony charges.
“There may be a few isolated voices saying that the president ought to fire him now, I can tell you as a body we’re saying, ‘Please don’t,’” he told Chuck Todd on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
"I fear that, because the president is head of the executive branch and can remove the attorney general anytime that he wants, that the continuous criticism without taking any action … makes the president look a little weak," Alberto Gonzales said on "Fox News Sunday."
New Jersey Republican Senate nominee Bob Hugin went on the offensive Sunday amid polls showing a tightening race in his push to unseat incumbent Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.).
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