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Last updated on December 23, 2024.
Meghan Marguerite McCain is an American television personality, columnist, and author. She has worked for ABC News, Fox News, and MSNBC. The daughter of politician John McCain and diplomat Cindy McCain, she has been a public figure for much of her life, first appearing at the 1996 Republican National Convention.
I consider myself a progressive Republican. I am liberal on social issues.
I'm not private about anything.
I spend a lot of time dancing in gay bars and want my gay friends to be able to get married, but I don't know if I ever want to get married and have kids. And I think that's a common struggle.
Every day of my life, I come against a conservative who wants me to shut up. I do believe I'm right and they are wrong.
I'm so thankful to Fox News for the chance to be on 'Outnumbered,' but I'm leaving to focus on other things. I have no doubt the show will continue to do well and wish all my friends and colleagues at the network nothing but success.
As a general rule, I wouldn't put anything in a text or e-mail or on social media that I wouldn't want the whole world to see.
You're nobody unless you have a gay rumor about you. I've been hit on by women from time to time, and it might simplify my life if I were gay, but no.
I want to say that since my dad has been diagnosed, I really feel like I understand the meaning of life, and it is not how you die: it is how you live.
I don't think I suffer from Trump derangement syndrome in a sense that I can separate the man from the White House.
I'm friends with people that probably would describe themselves as socialists and people that are much more conservative than I am. I can always find a middle ground.
Hell would freeze over before I would do a reality show. I've been offered everything you could possibly imagine, and it just doesn't interest me. You certainly won't see me dancing on TV.
My father is the sun in my universe.
I care more about my economy, national security, and fiscal conservatism than I do about what other women do with their bodies. It's not my place, and I don't believe it's the government's place, to make such decisions.
If you're a public figure, and if you're working in the White House, you should expect everything you're saying in any context to be leaked.
There are people I know who love President Trump and think that he's the greatest thing that's ever happened to America. I understand those people. I'm not shocked by them. I defend their right to love him. But I do think character and rhetoric matter.
I don't go to journalists' houses and start dishing about anything private.
My father is gone, and I miss him as only an adoring daughter can.
It's no secret that the blogosphere is more vicious on women than it is on men.
My father's legacy is going to be talked about for hundreds and hundreds of years.
I do consider myself a postfeminist. I just want women to have choices - they can be CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, or they can be stay-at-home mothers and raise their kids as a job.
I hate to rain on anyone's parade or burst the enthusiasm bubble, but talk is especially cheap during an election season.
I don't take private phone calls from the Trump Administration anymore.
I just think I'm the average all-American girl.
I can't give into hate. It's too great a burden to bear. I have to stick with love.
The baby boomers have dropped the ball on their burden of responsibility.
My dad's about character and bipartisanship and something greater than yourself and believing in this country and believing in the fact that we as Americans can still come together, and that's something I grew up in and feeds me every day.
When I'm 100 years old, if I make it that long, when I die, probably the first tag line will be John McCain's daughter, and I'm so proud of him and proud of my family's legacy and our life, so I don't have a problem with it.
I can't really regret things; you just have to move on and live your life.
When people don't like my politics, I am happy to have a political discussion with them.
I couldn't live my life the way I do if my parents weren't supportive.
I was raised in an open-minded home. I was raised a Christian, but I was raised open-minded Christian - one to accept people, love people, not pass judgment.
I was with my father at his end, as he was with me at my beginning. In the thirty-three years we shared together, he raised me, taught me, corrected me, comforted me, encouraged me, and supported me in all things.
People expect me to live in a picture-perfect Pottery Barn kind of place, but I don't like anything traditional.
I love tattoos.
I like men who confidently flirt with women they have just met.
I grew up in a border state. I think immigration is an essential part of American history and American culture.
I know what kind of books I read on vacation, and it is not necessarily 'Diplomacy' by Henry Kissinger. No disrespect to that book; I have read that book. But not on spring break.
The America of John McCain is generous and welcoming and bold.
It is really hard not to love Whoopi Goldberg.
We Republicans need to look at the future instead of living in the past.
I am often invited to speak at colleges, and whenever I do Q and A's, a question that inevitably comes up is, 'How do you put up with the blogosphere?' It's a valid question, and I don't really know what answer to give. The truth is that I don't know what to do.
Aside from the likability factor, I can criticize Hillary's politics all day long, but I never question her intelligence. I have never doubted that she is a strong, capable, smart leader.
My experience is authenticity and honesty always works best with people my age and younger, and even older. Millennials specifically really respond to keeping it real about your opinions.
My family is really good at letting go of things and moving on.
I really try every day. I really try to come into work thinking about what rhetoric I'm going to put out in the world and what my father would've done if he was still here.
I make my living talking about serious subject matter, but I'm a weirdo.
My father's passing comes with sorrow and grief for me, for my mother, for my brothers, and for my sisters. He was a great fire who burned bright, and we lived in his light and warmth for so very long.
I'm not intimidated by anyone.
Some fathers raise their daughters to be seen and not heard; they raise their daughters not to speak out. Raise strong women!
I really like working with people who believe what they're saying.
The White House isn't the only platform with a voice. ABC has a pretty big voice, too.
I consume media in a very frenetic, overtweeting way.
I can't cook, unless you want Cheez Whiz on a Ritz cracker.
I don't fit into the traditional Republican box that the wingnuts who have hijacked my party think all Republicans should.
I'm a nonstop extrovert, a people person who loves mingling and gabbing and getting out in the world.
Ashlee Simpson kicking her dressing room door after getting caught lip-synching - that was interesting to watch.
I am pro-life, but because life is complicated, that choice is between a woman and her idea of a higher power.
I do believe that unless we start reaching out to minorities and women and honestly start supporting the LGBT community, there is no more future for the Republican party.
The America of John McCain has no need to be made great again because America was always great.