John McCain famous quotes

Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country.
-- John McCain

#Country #Russia #Gas Stations

Torture gives you reliable and unreliable information. That's the reason why most people in the world don't do it. So this idea that you have to torture people in order to protect national security is a false argument, and I reject it.
-- John McCain

#Order #Ideas #People

I campaigned in 2012 all over this country for months: 'Repeal and replace Obamacare.' That was not the mandate of the voters. If they wanted to repeal Obamacare, the 2012 election would have been probably significantly different.
-- John McCain

#Country #Obamacare #Different

It's a fundamental aspect of the free enterprise system and economics: If there's no penalty associated with increased costs, why not lay on increased costs?
-- John McCain

#Cost #Why Not #Fundamentals

We are taught to understand, correctly, that courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity for action despite our fears.
-- John McCain

#Fear #Taught #Action

Cindy and I are adoptive parents. We know what a treasure and joy it is to have an adopted child in our lives.
-- John McCain

#Children #Joy #Parent

Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno.
-- John McCain

#Father #Ugly #Clinton

I watch sports all the time. My wife Cindy says I would watch the thumb-suckers play the bed-wetters. I watch all sports and I enjoy all sports. It's been great fun in my life and a great diversion.
-- John McCain

#Sports #Fun #Play

Courage is the enforcing virtue, the one that makes possible all the other virtues common to exceptional leaders: honesty, integrity, confidence, compassion and humility
-- John McCain

#Leadership #Honesty #Integrity

Senator Obama voted against Justice Breyer and Justice Roberts on the grounds that they didn't meet his ideological standards. That's not the way we should judge these nominees. Elections have consequences.
-- John McCain

#Justice #Judging #Way

You know that old Beach Boys song, Bomb Iran? Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran.
-- John McCain

#Song #Beach #Boys

I think that decisions should rest in the hands of the states. I'm a federalist.
-- John McCain

#Thinking #Hands #Decision

I think conventional wisdom is that time is not on our side. But there are a number of members of Congress who have primaries and when those primaries are done, they may be more inclined to address the issue of comprehensive immigration reform.
-- John McCain

#Thinking #Numbers #Issues

Free trade with Colombia is something that's a no-brainer.
-- John McCain

#Colombia #Trade #Free Trade

Fear is the opportunity for courage, not proof of cowardice.
-- John McCain

#Positive #Opportunity #Cowardice

I think that Joe Biden is qualified in many respects. But I do point out that he's been wrong on many foreign policy and national security issues, which is supposed to be his strength.
-- John McCain

#Thinking #Issues #Biden

I believe in evolution. But I also believe, when I hike the Grand Canyon and see it at sunset, that the hand of God is there also.
-- John McCain

#Believe #Sunset #Hiking

Americans have gotten to know Sarah Palin. They know that she's a role model to women and other - and reformers all over America. She's a reformer.
-- John McCain

#America #Role Models #Roles

The facts are facts and records are records.
-- John McCain

#Records #Facts

It's a matter of fact that Senator Obama has spent more money on negative ads than any political campaign in history.
-- John McCain

#Political #Negative #Campaigns

A man I admire and respect - Congressman John Lewis, an American hero, made allegations that Sarah Palin and I were somehow associated with the worst chapter in American history, segregation, deaths of children in church bombings, George Wallace. That, to me, was so hurtful.
-- John McCain

#Children #Hero #Men

I believe strongly that we should have nominees to the United States Supreme Court based on their qualifications rather than any litmus test.
-- John McCain

#Believe #United States #Tests

I guess he believes if a lie is big enough and repeated often enough, it will be believed.
-- John McCain

#Lying #Believe #Enough

I'm not President Bush
-- John McCain

#President #President Bush

It's always the wacko birds on right and left that get the media megaphone.
-- John McCain

#Memorable #Media #Bird

The Constitution established the United States of America as a Christian nation.
-- John McCain

#Christian #America #Religion

Bin Laden’s death and the debate over torture
-- John McCain

#Debate #Torture #Bin Laden

Washington is a Hollywood for ugly people. Hollywood is a Washington for the simpleminded.
-- John McCain

#People #Hollywood #Ugly

Never get into a wrestling match with a pig. You both get dirty, and the pig likes it.
-- John McCain

#Dirty #Wrestling #Pigs

Even in this room full of proud Manhattan Democrats. I can't shake that feeling that some people here are pulling for me ... I'm delighted to see you here tonight, Hillary.
-- John McCain

#People #Feelings #Rooms

The fact that we did not give the demonstrators in Iran our moral support when a young woman named Neda bled to death in the streets of Iran will go down as one of the great mistakes of the 21st Century.
-- John McCain

#Mistake #Iran #Giving

I strongly support the Second Amendment and I believe the Second Amendment ought to be preserved - which means no gun control.
-- John McCain

#Believe #Mean #Gun

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.
-- John McCain

#People #Causes #Principles

Our enemies didn't adhere to the Geneva Convention. Many of my comrades were subjected to very cruel, very inhumane and degrading treatment, a few of them even unto death. But every one of us - every single one of us - knew and took great strength from the belief that we were different from our enemies, that we were better than them, that we, if the roles were reversed, would not disgrace ourselves by committing or countenancing such mistreatment of them.
-- John McCain

#Enemy #Different #Roles

How much damage will have been done before we act?
-- John McCain

#Done #Damage #Global Warming

We have many advantages in the fight against global warming, but time is not one of them. Instead of idly debating the precise extent of global warming, or the precise timeline of global warming, we need to deal with the central facts of rising temperatures, rising waters, and all the endless troubles that global warming will bring. We stand warned by serious and credible scientists across the world that time is short and the dangers are great. The most relevant question now is whether our own government is equal to the challenge.
-- John McCain

#Fighting #Government #Water

As long as there is a war on terrorism going on, we're all going to have to work together.
-- John McCain

#War #Long #Working Together

America has much to gain in terms of jobs and trade by meeting the growing world demand for advanced, environmentally sound technologies.
-- John McCain

#Jobs #Technology #America

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.
-- John McCain

#Self #Environmental #Serious

The issue of economics is not something I've understood as well as I should. I've got Greenspan's book.
-- John McCain

#Book #Issues #Economics

Our economy, I think, is still -- the fundamentals of our economy are strong.
-- John McCain

#Strong #Thinking #Fundamentals

Everybody says that they're against the special interests. I'm the only one the special interests don't give any money to.
-- John McCain

#Giving #Special #Interest

I don't e-mail. I've never felt the particular need to e-mail.
-- John McCain

#Needs #Mail #Particular

I am learning to get online myself, and I will have that down fairly soon, getting on myself,
-- John McCain

#Online

We should be able to deliver bottled hot water to dehydrated babies.
-- John McCain

#Baby #Water #Hot

I will veto every single beer, um, bill with earmarks.
-- John McCain

#Beer #Bills #Veto

I am learning to get online myself, and I will have that down fairly soon, getting on myself. I dont expect to be a great communicator, I dont expect to set up my own blog, but I am becoming computer literate to the point where I can get the information that I need.
-- John McCain

#Needs #Information #Becoming

I was concerned about a couple of steps that the Russian government took in the last several days. One was reducing the energy supplies to Czechoslovakia.
-- John McCain

#Couple #Government #Lasts

As long as Americans are not being injured or harmed or wounded or killed, it's fine with me and I hope it would be fine with you if we maintain a presence in a very volatile part of the world where al Qaeda is training, recruiting, equipping and motivating people every single day.
-- John McCain

#Long #People #Training

At no time have I ever done anything that would betray the public trust.
-- John McCain

#Done #Betray

Thank God for the Saudis and Prince Bandar, and for our Qatari friends,
-- John McCain

#Thank God

I don't doubt the sincerity of my Democratic friends. And they should not doubt ours.
-- John McCain

#Doubt #Sincerity #Should

We make the future better than the past. We don't hide from history. We make history.
-- John McCain

#Past

We are Americans first, Americans last, and Americans always.
-- John McCain

#Lasts #Firsts

I owe America more than she has ever owed me.
-- John McCain

#America

I think [social media] is fundamentally restructuring the whole nature of information and how it's expressed in America.
-- John McCain

#Thinking #Social Media

[I find it] impossible [to imagine] that a nation which is grounded in Judaeo-Christian principles would somehow select someone [for President] who would repudiate those principles.
-- John McCain

#Christian #Scary #President