John Sidney McCain III Quotes

• War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.

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• I will not take the low road to the highest office in the land.

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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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• We must win in Iraq. If we withdraw, there will be chaos; there will be genocide; and they will follow us home.

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• 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.

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• We cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves, from ourselves.

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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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• 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.

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• The problem… is that most members of Congress don’t pay attention to what’s going on.

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• The first pork-barrel bill that crosses my desk, I’m going to veto it and make the authors of those pork-barrel items famous all over America.

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• The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness that only a few malcontents, lunatics generally, ever dare to threaten them.

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• 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.

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• Thank God for our form of government. The media won’t let there be any cover-up.

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• Remember the words of Chairman Mao: ‘It’s always darkest before it’s totally black.’.

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• Our political differences, now matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding convictions.

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• Our armed forces will fight for peace in Iraq, a peace built on more secure foundations than are found today in the Middle East. Even more important, they will fight for two human conditions of even greater value than peace: liberty and justice.

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• Only the most deluded of us could doubt the necessity of this war.

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• On the subject of Osama bin Laden… we will track him down. We will capture him. We will bring him to justice, and I will follow him to the gates of hell.

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• On ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ I was always the same. I said we needed a complete review of the impact on morale and battle effectiveness of ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ before we repeal it. That’s my position now. Now they’re trying to ram through a repeal without a – any kind of really realistic survey done.

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• My greatest fear is the Iranians acquire a nuclear weapon and give it to a terrorist organization. And there is a real threat of them doing that.

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Birth:	29th August, 1936
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Politician

About

John Sidney McCain III was born in Coco Solo, Panama Canal Zone, USA. He is an American Republican politician serving as the senior United States Senator from Arizona since 1987. In 2015, he became chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. He entered the race for the Republican nomination for President in 2000, but he lost a heated primary season contest to George W. Bush of Texas. He was the Republican nominee for President of the United States in the 2008 election, which he lost to Barack Obama. He earned a BS degree from US Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland in 1958. He became a naval aviator and flew ground-attack aircraft from aircraft carriers. He retired from the Navy as a captain in 1981 and moved to Arizona, where he entered politics. In 1982, he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, where he served two terms. He received many awards, including Silver Star Medal, Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart Medal, Legion of Merit, Distinguished Flying Cross, and Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal.

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