Quotes by John McCain

About John McCain:

John Sidney McCain III is the senior United States Senator from Arizona. He was the Republican presidential nominee in the 2008 United States presidential election.
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As a governor and senator, John Chafee set the standard for honesty and decency that the rest of us on our best days could only dream to emulate.

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In prison, I fell in love with my country. I had loved her before then, but like most young people, my affection was little more than a simple appreciation for the comforts and privileges most Americans enjoyed and took for granted. It wasn't until I...

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Ironically for someone who had so long asserted his own individuality as his first and best defense against insults of any kind, I discovered that faith in myself proved to be the least formidable strength I possessed when confronting alone organized...

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We cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves, from ourselves.

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Barbara Boxer is the most bitterly partisan, most anti-defense senator in the United States Senate today. I know that because I've had the unpleasant experience of having to serve with her.

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But please know, whether you believe campaign contributions are speech or property, that I learned to love very dearly the right of free expression when I lived without that freedom for a while a long time ago.

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And the people who live in the southern part of my state do not have a secure environment. To wit, there are signs that the government put up that say, 'Warning. You are in a drug smuggling area and a human smuggling area.'

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We must win in Iraq. If we withdraw, there will be chaos; there will be genocide; and they will follow us home.

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The tea partiers are a great addition. The tea partiers have invigorated a base that has been dormant for a long period of time. We're going to have a broad array of different views in our Republican conference, and I think it might be more interesti...

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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.

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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.

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Thank God for our form of government. The media won't let there be any cover-up.

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I believe in evolution. But I also believe, when I hike the Grand Canyon and see it at sunset, that the hand of God is there also.

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Remember the words of Chairman Mao: 'It's always darkest before it's totally black.'.

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I don't doubt the sincerity of my Democratic friends. And they should not doubt ours.

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Do not yield. Do not flinch. Stand up. Stand up with our President and fight. We're Americans. We're Americans, and we'll never surrender. They will.

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I am a Republican. I'm loyal to the party of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. And I believe that my party, in some ways, has strayed from those principles, particularly on the issue of fiscal discipline.

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Our political differences, now matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding convictions.

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The problem... is that most members of Congress don't pay attention to what's going on.

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I am fully prepared to be commander in chief... I don't need on-the-job training.

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Author Bio

  • NameJohn McCain
  • DescriptionUnited States Senator
  • AliasesJohn Sidney McCain III
  • BornAugust 29, 1936
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPolitician; Officer; Autobiographer; War Heroes
  • AwardsDistinguished Flying Cross; Bronze Star Medal; Legionnaire Of Legion Of Merit; Purple Heart; Air Medal; Commander Of The Order Of Ouissam Alaouite; Silver Star; Freedom Award; Profile In Courage Award