these members of congress, you know, speaking it s so refreshing and beautiful to hear them speaking from the heart from their good friend. reporter: absolutely. it was such an emotional moment from senator graham there and i think especially poignant giving the speech on the senate floor just about one foot from the desk of the late senator mccain. a reminder to senator graham of one of his closest friends. and when we heard the news, of course, of senator john mccain s passing, think of his family first and second a lot of people in this building would agree you think of senator lindsey graham. they were so linked together. best friends here in the senate. always together. working on things together. and their closeness, their friendship was one that really defied politics. it was outside of this chamber here in the senate, outside of washington beltway politics. it really defied politics and
was so small. what did i learn? that if a few dumb jokes told over and over actually become funny and can take you a long way in politics, marco. i m going to give them to you because john liked you. lindsey, how hot is it in arizona? john, i don t know. it s so hot that the trees chase the dogs. i said, isn t that funny, john? what is unique about arizona? i don t know, john. i imagine a lot of things. barry goldwater ran for president. -. i ran for president and lost. lindsey, the only place in the nation mothers tell their children you can never grow up to be president. jeff, remember that. maybe you can break the string. lindsey, aren t you a lawyer? yes, i am, john.
i remember about 2,000 soldiers wanting a photo. and every one of them got it. i remember being so hot i couldn t breathe but we stayed anyway. i remember coming back an getting the nomination only to lose. i remember that night very well. he had wanted to be president. he was prepared to be president. but it was not his to have. and i remember above all else 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 s so many countries where you can t afford to lose because they kill you. and john said that night, president obama is now my president. so he healed the nation at a
would ask you to look at when it comes to life of john mccain, that it s okay to tell people i screwed up. i got this wrong. i want to make it right. honor is in my view doing the right thing at your own expense. and he did that time and time and time again. he taught me that life without passion and love is a sad life. he had a happy life. he had ten lives. he was involved in five aviation accidents. if we sent john a bill for all the planes he crashed he could never pay it off. he lived life to its fullest.
pr practicality must be practiced in equal measure. he believes in climate change and so do i. there s a practical streak of john that i think made him very successful because he told me time and time again you have to let people catch up with you. you have to have a rhythm and a pace. there are 100 people in this body from different walks of life. you may think you re right. and over time if you are it will be proven. but give the your colleagues the time and the understanding to catch up with you. he taught me that honor and imperfection are always in competition. i do not cry for a perfect man. i cry for a man who had honor and always was willing to admit to his imperfection. if you re thinking about getting in politics, the one thing i