Lindsey Graham on John McCain: ‘I Learned that Serving a Cause Greater than Yourself Hurts’

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GRAHAM: "He had wanted to be president. He was prepared to be president. But it was not his to have. And I remember above all levels the speech he gave that night. John taught us how to lose. When you go throughout the world, people remember his concession speech as much as anything else. There are so many countries where you can’t afford to lose because they’ll kill you. And John said that night, President Obama is now my president. So he healed the nation at a time he was hurt. I learned that serving a cause greater than yourself hurts. Anybody in the military can tell you the risk you take. He couldn’t put his jacket on. He couldn’t comb his hair because he got hurt serving a cause greater than his self. I remember how easy it is to say and how hard it is to do, how hard it is to tell your base 'I think you’re wrong.' How hard it is to solve problems that nobody else wants to talk about. I learned that failure and success are the different sides of the same coin, that John told me, I have become better from my failures because it teaches us and I’ve been tempted by my success and without my failures, I would never have been successful. So to those who are striving as a young person, remember John McCain. He failed a lot but he never quit."