John McCain Quotes
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You have at hand many examples of good character from whom you will have learned the lessons by which you can live your own lives. You are blessed. Make the most of it.
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I don't think anybody is - no one could compare to Ronald Reagan, because he was the right man at the right time.
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Some men are much more self-sufficient than others.
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I have not been keeping up with it as much as I should have maybe, because it’s certainly-This and Paris Hilton are the kind of issues that seem to get a lot more attention than maybe some of us think they deserve.
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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 return.
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I guess my view is I believe less governance is best governance and that government should not do what the free enterprise and private enterprise and indidividual entrepreneurship and the states can do.
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Saddam Hussein is a risk-taking aggressor who has attacked four countries, used chemical weapons against his own people, professed a desire to harm the United States and its allies, and, even faced with the prospect of his regime's imminent destruction, has still refused to abide by Security Council demands that he disarm.
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You cannot tell the enemy you're going to leave and expect the enemy to not - and expect to succeed. I mean, that's just a fundamental of warfare.
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Putin wants to restore the Russian empire. That's his ambition; he's stated it many times.
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Political leaders are not and cannot reasonably be expected to be indifferent to the cruelest calumnies aimed at their character.
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The way you have bipartisan negotiations, you sit down across the table, as we did with Ted Kennedy, as I've done with many other members, and you say, 'OK, here's what I want, here's what you want. We'll adhere to your principles, but we'll make concessions.'
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Our society demands that women be treated equally and that we not discriminate against them.
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The vice president has two duties. One is to inquire daily as to the health of the president, and the other is to attend the funerals of third world dictators. And neither of those do I find an enjoyable exercise.
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As part of Social Security reform, I believe that private savings accounts are a part of it - along the lines that President Bush proposed.
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I love him dearly. On issues of economics and … family values, there's nobody that I know that's stronger.
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Whenever America sends its citizens into harm's way, it must do so with eyes wide open.
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On Putin's order, corrupt apparatchiks and crony oligarchs rob Russians of their nation's wealth and resources.
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I've got to give you some straight talk: Some of the jobs that have left the state of Michigan are not coming back. They are not. And I am sorry to tell you that.
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The French repulsed wave after wave of frontal attacks at Dien Bien Phu. The 1968 Tet offensive against the U.S. was a military disaster that effectively destroyed the Viet Cong. But Giap persisted and prevailed.
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I consider myself a realist.
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For America, our interests are our values, and our values are our interests.
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An American president does not lead the Free World by congratulating dictators on winning sham elections.
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Sometimes it's important to watch what the president does rather than what he says.
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I'm not running for president to be somebody, but to do something; to do the hard but necessary things not the easy and needless things.