Tributes from former US presidents and across the political spectrum have poured in for Republican Senator John McCain, who has died aged 81.

✔@realDonaldTrump






My deepest sympathies and respect go out to the family of Senator John McCain. Our hearts and prayers are with you!

Melania Trump

✔@FLOTUS






Our thoughts, prayers and deepest sympathy to the McCain Family. Thank you Senator McCain for your service to the nation.

How is he being remembered?

George W. Bush Presidential Center

✔@TheBushCenter



"Some lives are so vivid, it is difficult to imagine them ended. Some voices are so vibrant, it is hard to think of them stilled. John McCain was a man of deep conviction and a patriot of the highest order.” [...] Full statement by President George W. Bush https://www.bushcenter.org/about-the-center/newsroom/press-releases/2018/08/gwb--statement-mccain.html …

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John McCain was my friend. I will remember the good times. My family and I send prayers for Cindy and the McCain family.
- Sarah Palin and family

My heart is broken. I am so lucky to have lived the adventure of loving this incredible man for 38 years. He passed the way he lived, on his own terms, surrounded by the people he loved, in the the place he loved best.

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Who was John McCain?

• Obituary: John McCain
• In pictures: The early years

A fighter to the very end