Top 518 Quotes & Sayings by John McCain - Page 2

I get along with the Democrats, but please - I'm not their hero.

I think it's important for Donald Trump to express his appreciation for veterans - not John McCain, but veterans who were incarcerated as prisoners of war.

I have certainly seen my share of the world as it really is and not how I wish it would be.

I think it's important for the president of the United States to be aware of the intelligence information that we have.

I don't think Roger Ailes is ham-fisted.

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 interesting than any I've been in in a long time.

I have watched men suffer the anguish of imprisonment, defy appalling human cruelty... break for a moment, then recover inhuman strength to defy their enemies once more.

I consider myself a realist.

Americans want jobs. They want affordable health insurance. They want an education.

Sen. Obama comes from the old Chicago machine politics and has never taken on the special interests in his party on a major issue ever.

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.

Depriving the oppressed of a beacon of hope could lose us the world we have built and thrived in. It could cost our reputation in history as the nation distinct from all others in our achievements, our identity, and our enduring influence on mankind. Our values are central to all three.

I think it's important that the President of the United States consult as widely as possible with those who have different views so that he can - he or she - can make the most informed decisions.

I thought I'd be president of the United States.

Personally, I liked Admiral Kelso very much. I believe that he served his country with distinction.

I'm not against a border wall, OK, but go to China, and you'll see a border wall there. We need technology, we need drones, we need surveillance capabilities, and we need rapid-reaction capabilities.

My record shows that I have put my country first, and I follow the philosophy and traditions of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan.

I've tried to say that I admire and respect Sen. Obama. He has accomplished great things, and he has motivated people, and so - and he loves his country, just as I do.

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.

As he assumes the awesome responsibilities of the presidency, Donald Trump has inherited a world on fire and a U.S. military weakened by years of senseless budget cuts. I am encouraged that he recognizes these problems and has pledged to rebuild the military.

I used to write books and plays in my mind, but I doubt that any of them would have been above the level of the cheapest dime novel.

On Putin's order, corrupt apparatchiks and crony oligarchs rob Russians of their nation's wealth and resources.

It is foolish to view realism and idealism as incompatible or to consider our power and wealth as encumbered by the demands of justice, morality, and conscience.

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.

I know in war good people can feel obliged for good reasons to do things they would normally object to and recoil from.

The American people want us to stop spending. And so let's just give them some certainty. Let's extend the tax - the existing tax cuts. And then let's give some more tax breaks to small businesses and large. And then maybe the American people will have some confidence.

Some men are much more self-sufficient than others.

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.

No one can plausibly argue that ridding the world of Saddam Hussein will not significantly improve the stability of the region and the security of American interests and values.

Countries, not just their armies, win wars.

I think that Rand Paul represents a segment of the GOP, just like his father. And I think he is trying to expand that, intelligently, to make it larger.

I think that it's important that we understand the importance of the Hispanic vote in America.

I believe that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein. I believe it's clear that he had every intention to acquire and use weapons of mass destruction. I can only imagine what Saddam Hussein would be doing with the wealth he would acquire with oil at $110 and $120 a barrel.

I admire the Islam. There's a lot of good principles in it.

I don't think anybody is - no one could compare to Ronald Reagan, because he was the right man at the right time.

Giap was a master of logistics, but his reputation rests on more than that. His victories were achieved by a patient strategy that he and Ho Chi Minh were convinced would succeed - an unwavering resolve to suffer immense casualties and the near total destruction of their country to defeat any adversary, no matter how powerful.

I fell in love with my country when I was a prisoner in someone else's.

Government should take care of those in America who can't care for themselves. That's a role of government.

I understand the sensitivity of issues regarding women in the military.

I consider myself a Christian. I attend church. My faith has sustained me in very difficult times.

Public life has many more privileges than hardships.

What is most troubling about Mr. Putin's aggression in Crimea is that it reflects a growing disregard for America's credibility in the world. That has emboldened other aggressive actors - from Chinese nationalists to Al Qaeda terrorists and Iranian theocrats.

Political leaders are not and cannot reasonably be expected to be indifferent to the cruelest calumnies aimed at their character.

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.'

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.

I know that victims of torture will offer intentionally misleading information if they think their captors will believe it.

China is the one, the only one, that can control Kim Jong Un, this crazy, fat kid that's running North Korea.

I'm proud of my record of reform, taking on my own party.

Our society demands that women be treated equally and that we not discriminate against them.

I am frustrated and outraged by the slow nature of change at the VA.

I believe in prayer. I pray every night.

Most great leaders in history that I've studied always need to get as wide a range of opinions as possible so that they can have sufficient information to make the right decisions.

I think ISIS can do terrible things.

Sometimes it's important to watch what the president does rather than what he says.

I tell the same stories all the time because I like them!

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.

America didn't invent human rights. Those rights are common to all people: nations, cultures, and religions cannot choose to simply opt out of them.

When a president makes life and death decisions, he should draw strength and wisdom from broad and deep experience with the reasons for and the risks of committing our children to our defense. For no matter how many others are involved in the decision, the president is a lonely man in a dark room when the casualty reports come in.

I think that Fox News is a bit schizophrenic.

We cannot have a separate group of people that are military and a separate civilian society. Otherwise, it's dangerous to democracy.