"John McCain ... when you were talking about him not being an American hero ... and not liking people who were captured ... He has said that he doesn't want an apology from you for him personally but he thinks you ought to apologize to the tens of thousands of POWs who were captured by no fault of their own."
"I've actually done that ... I like John McCain ... John McCain is a hero. Also heroes are people, whether they get caught or don't get caught, they're all heroes as far as I'm concerned."
"Do you regret saying that?"
"I like not to regret anything ... What I said frankly is what I said ... There are many people that like what I said ... After I said that my poll numbers went up seven points ... In my eyes John McCain is a hero."
"In my view ... a guy who got three or four deferments to keep from going to Vietnam probably shouldn't be characterizing people like John McCain as anything. Do you think?"
"I had student deferments. I also got a great lottery number ... I think I was 356 ... one of the low numbers."
"The Vietnam War was a war that was a mistake. It was a big, big mistake. A horrible mistake. Just like Iraq was a mistake. These people we have leading us make a lot of mistakes."
- Donald Trump speaking with Don Imus, May 11, 2016, on the radio program "Imus in the Morning"
