John McCain Quotes

I don’t know if I would want him as vice president. He and I have the same strengths. But to serve in other capacities? Hell, yeah.

John McCain

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Hizbullah is not a militia.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Militia

• My boy and I move. We have this game where if we dress in a particular item of clothing, we have to do a different movement. A hat means 20 jumps - that sort of thing. When I put a scarf on, my son has to drop down and do push-ups, immediately. He thinks it's really funny.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Different
  • Game
  • Funny

• There are lots of different reasons to choose roles.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Different
  • Choose
  • Lots

• Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Ego
  • Self
  • Autobiography

• I love working with people and having them bring something to the table that I couldn't. I think one of my favourite artists to work with has been Kucka. She's Australian, too, and it's great working with her because we kind of have a very similar take on music, and we like a lot of the same stuff. We're not super-precious about ideas.

  

  Flume
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Heart
  • Words
  • Prayer

• I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Done
  • Effort

• The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Kind
  • Poverty
  • Argument

• Look, all this is about is utilizing the rules of the Senate, using a majority of the senators, to make sure that we get health reform done. We cannot wait another day.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Done
  • Health
  • Day

• I hate the fact that people think 'compromise' is a dirty word.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • People
  • Think
  • Hate

• Comedians are always hitting the topical notes that are on everybody's minds.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Always
  • Minds
  • Comedians

• I am all for controlling guns.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Guns
  • Controlling

• Unfettered, creative, and enthusiastic entrepreneurship is one of the hallmarks of American life, and it has allowed us to attract the best and brightest to this country.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Life
  • Country
  • American

• There is nothing your highest self wants more than peace. This peace makes you feel worthy of all of the richest blessings of the universe, and when you radiate this out into the world, it is returned to you without fail.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • World
  • Peace
  • Universe

• I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Important
  • Nice
  • Woman

• It is when I am working that the real me comes out - that is when I am the most real and honest.

  

  Laetitia Casta
  • Real
  • Working
  • Honest

• I think it's important for little girls growing up, and young women, to have one in every walk of life. So from that point of view, I'm proud to be a role model!

  

  Sally Ride
  • Life
  • Up
  • Important

• In A-ball, you're either going to move up, or you're going to get released. That kind of paranoia played a lot into the players' mentality leading up to the events of 'Eight Men Out.'

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Up
  • Men
  • You

• What should be targeted is a concept of organic, and not just mechanic, democracy that preserves the rule of law, separation of powers, and that is participatory and pluralistic.

  

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan
  • Democracy
  • Powers
  • Rule Of Law

• To live truly and effectively the idea of achievement must be given up. Put unsentimental piety first, turn your back on the world, and get on with it.

  

  Agnes Martin
  • Up
  • World
  • Live

• Experience teaches that when the will and imagination are in conflict, the imagination usually wins. What we imagine may defeat our reason and make us slaves to what we taste, see, hear, smell, and feel in the mind's eye. The body is indeed the servant of the mind.

  

  Joseph B. Wirthlin
  • Mind
  • May
  • Experience

• Perseverance is my biggest lesson. When I started to get involved in environmental protection some years ago, my people did not take it seriously and they never considered it important. But today, people look at what I do and they truly recognize those efforts, and eventually they join you as "environmental activists" too!

  

  Li Bingbing
  • People
  • Important
  • Today

• I don’t know if I would want him as vice president. He and I have the same strengths. But to serve in other capacities? Hell, yeah.

  

  John McCain