John McCain Quotations

Guest Author - Danielle Hollister

Review various quotations by this Republican Presidential Candidate and current United States Senator, born August 29, 1936.

"America has much to gain in terms of jobs and trade by meeting the growing world demand for advanced, environmentally sound technologies."
"An act of heroism, of extraordinary courage, the grandeur of it, won't easily inspire us to act in imitation, but it can inspire us to emulate its author. For that, we should learn what we can of the whole experience of the subject, the hero's life, as it was before and after, and believe that trying to emulate the character it reveals is one tried way to prepare for the tests that might await us and gain hope that our courage will not be wanting in the moment."
"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. "
"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."
"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."
"Glory is not a conceit. It is not a decoration for valor. Glory belongs to the act of being constant to something greater than yourself, to a cause, to your principles, to the people on whom you rely and who rely on you in rerun."
"I am fully prepared to be commander in chief, ... I don't need on-the-job training."
"I think that when you look at the great politicians, the two greatest in my view were George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, they certainly had character traits. You also know Abraham Lincoln overcame severe depression problems that he had when he was younger, which gave him the strength and the character later on."
"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. "
"I don't doubt the sincerity of my Democratic friends. And they should not doubt ours. "
"I don't know what information the president had at the time and what he didn't have, ... So, I think all of that's going to be reviewed, and I'm sure that will be part of this commission. "
""I spent several years in a North Vietnamese prison camp, in the dark, fed with scraps. Do you think I want to do that all over again as vice president of the United States?"
"It is perhaps my greatest hope, Mr. President, that some day we'll consider tax and spending measures with no one else in mind but future generations of American taxpayers. We're tying a millstone of debt around their necks, and it is a grave mistake. "
"Just by coincidence, Senator Teddy Kennedy and I, in the last couple of days, after several months of negotiations, have reached an agreement for an immigration proposal that we will be putting out next week, ... our proposal is along the lines of make them pay a fine of a couple thousand dollars, make them work for three years, and after three years they can get in the back of the line for a green card and then eventually become citizens."
"Only the most deluded of us could doubt the necessity of this war."
"Our armed forces will fight for peace in Iraq, a peace built on more secure foundations than are found today in the Middle East. Even more important, they will fight for two human conditions of even greater value than peace: liberty and justice. "
"Our nation has both an obligation and self-interest in facing head-on the serious environmental, economic and national security threat posed by global warming."
"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. "
"Presidential ambition is a disease that can only be cured by embalming fluid."
"Remember the words of Chairman Mao: 'It's always darkest before it's totally black.'. "
"Thank God for our form of government. The media won't let there be any cover-up."
"The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness that only a few malcontents, lunatics generally, ever dare to threaten them."
"The problem, ... is that most members of Congress don't pay attention to what's going on."
"War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality."
"Washington is a Hollywood for ugly people. Hollywood is a Washington for the simpleminded."
"We are taught to understand, correctly, that courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity for action despite our fears."
"We cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves, from ourselves."
"We can't disrupt polling places anymore, ... It doesn't serve any purpose. It just makes people mad."
"Whoever that is in the middle of there, I'm not going to vote for him."

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