John McCain Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by John McCain
John McCain Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from John McCain on Wise Famous Quotes.
I have said for a long time that I thought the president would be best served if the attorney general resigned so I think it's the right thing to do.
I'm going to be honest: I know a lot less about economics than I do about military and foreign policy issues. I still need to be educated.
In 2003, I warned of a 'creeping coup' in Russia against the forces of democracy and market capitalism in Russia.
I think the American people should know there's already strong influences toward another deployment of American troops in an open-ended commitment.
I observed a thousand acts of courage, compassion and love [as a POW] and I will always treasure that memory above all others.
Why am I running for president? Well, my wife, Cindy, says it is because I sustainedseveral severe blows to the head in prison camp.
I would vote for a Muslim if he or she was the best candidate able to lead the country and defend our political values.
America has much to gain in terms of jobs and trade by meeting the growing world demand for advanced, environmentally sound technologies.
We ought to pay down the national debt, ... The American people are tired of people who make promises about cutting taxes that they cannot keep.
We know that Medicare's going broke in seven years, but we need to start over. That's what the American people want us to do.
We can't disrupt polling places anymore, ... It doesn't serve any purpose. It just makes people mad.
We have to love our freedom, not just for the private opportunities it provides, but for the goodness it makes possible.
Many good people mistake their reputation for their character. It is a mistake I have made many, many times.
Now that we have the line-item veto there is no excuse for Congress to put pork in and no reason for the president not to line-item veto it out.
I believe strongly that we should have nominees to the United States Supreme Court based on their qualifications rather than any litmus test.
We must win in Iraq. If we withdraw, there will be chaos; there will be genocide; and they will follow us home.
As part of Social Security reform, I believe that private savings accounts are a part of it
along the lines that President Bush proposed.
along the lines that President Bush proposed.
Excessive administration secrecy ... feeds conspiracy theories and reduces the public's confidence in government.
Everybody says that they're against the special interests. I'm the only one the special interests don't give any money to.
Teachers don't need as much as $140,000 a year, ... But, perhaps some senators don't need $140,000 a year either.
I don't know a politician who enjoys fundraising. The system is such that the American people have lost faith.
It seems to me that President Carter has earned his place as if not the worst president in history, the worst president of the 20th Century.
Sen. Obama is a decent person and a person you don't have to be scared of as president of the United States.
I don't know how you defeat an insurgency unless you have some handle on the number of people you are facing.
I have said from the beginning that Pat Buchanan left the Republican Party the day he questioned America's involvement in defeating Nazi Germany.
I have said many times in the past I don't choose to be vice president, either Republican, Democrat, Libertarian or vegetarian.
Arizona may be the only state in America where mothers don't tell their children that someday they can grow up and be president.
The issue of economics is not something I've understood as well as I should. I've got Greenspan's book.
What is good for my country is good for my party, Should my party abandon this principle, the American people will abandon us.
I'm ashamed that Congress finds billions for pork-barrel subsidies but fails to find money for veterans' health care.
Anybody who believes the surge has not succeeded, militarily, politically and in most other ways, frankly, does not know the facts on the ground.
I strongly support the Second Amendment and I believe the Second Amendment ought to be preserved - which means no gun control.
There's going to be other wars. I'm sorry to tell you, there's going to be other wars. We will never surrender, but there will be other wars.
Tolerance of dissent is the hallmark of a mature party, and it is well past time for the Republican Party to grow up.
The first pork-barrel bill that crosses my desk, I'm going to veto it and make the authors of those pork-barrel items famous all over America.
We have a lot of work to do. It's a very hard struggle, particularly given the situation on the Iraq-Pakistan border.
Gary Bauer has done great things, ... I want to promise you again, you may agree with me, you may disagree with me, but I will do great things.
My greatest fear is the Iranians acquire a nuclear weapon and give it to a terrorist organization. And there is a real threat of them doing that.
Don't let anyone tell you otherwise - not our political opponents, and certainly not a disingenuous filmmaker, who would have us believe.
There's a certain romanticism associated with exploration of space, which is one of the major factors why we'll continue.
In California, it's hard to buy all the media, no matter how much money you raise or spend, because it's such a huge state.
I am confident, with the leadership and the backing of the American people, President Obama will turn this country around,
(Obama) really has no experience or knowledge or judgment about the issue of Iraq and he has wanted to surrender for a long time.
I want to tell the vice president and everybody else that when I'm president there will be a controlling legal authority.
The smartest person in the United States Senate, and he knows it, is John Sununu. Thank God he had his mother's temperament.
I'm just trying to keep things normal around the house, because there's no reason why things shouldn't be normal.