We're no longer staring into the abyss of defeat and we can
now look ahead to the genuine prospect of success.
John McCain
During General David Petraeus’ testimony
before Congress on the military “surge” strategy in
Iraq. April 8, 2008. |
Anybody who believes the surge has not succeeded, militarily,
politically and in most other ways, frankly, does not know the
facts on the ground.
John McCain
February 2008. |
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.
John McCain
January 9, 2008. |
The point is it’s American casualties. We’ve go
to get American’s off the frontline, have the Iraqis as
part of the strategy, take over more and more of the responsibilities,
and then I don’t think Americans are concerned if we’re
there for a hundred years or a thousand years or ten thousand
years.
John McCain
Face the Nation, January 6, 2008. |
Maybe a hundred ... That would be fine with me. As long as
Americans are not being injured or harmed or wounded or killed.
That's fine with me, I hope that would be fine with you, if
we maintain a presence in a very volatile part of the world
where Al Queada is training and equipping and recruiting and
motivating people every single day.
John McCain
Asked at town hall meeting prior to New
Hampshire Primary about Bush statement that US troops could
be in Iraq for 50 years, January 3 2008. |
You know that old Beach Boy song Bomb Iran. Bomb bomb bomb,
bomb bomb Iran.
John McCain
Singing to tune of Barbara Ann, at campaign
stop, answering question about what to do with Iran, April 18
2008. |
I just have to say in all candor that since this nation was
founded primarily on Christian principles, personally I prefer
someone who I know has a solid grounding in my faith. But that
doesn't mean that I'm sure that someone who's Muslim wouldn't
make a good president. I don't say that we would rule out under
any circumstances someone of a different faith.
John McCain
Interview with beliefnet.org, answering
question if there could ever be a Muslim US president. |
I would vote for a Muslim if he or she was the best candidate
able to lead the country and defend our political values.
John McCain
Upon calling the reporter after said above
in beliefnet.org interview, to clarify his position. |
Americans are very frustrated, and they have every right to
be. We've wasted a lot of our most precious treasure, which
is American lives.
John McCain
Announcing he would be running in 2008
US Presidential race, on 'Late Late Show with David Letterman'
February 2007. |
I should have used the word "sacrificed", as I have
in the past. No one appreciates and honours more than I do the
selfless patriotism of American servicemen and womnen in the
Iraq war.
John McCain
Regretting saying American lives had been
"wasted" in Iraq. |
We are paying a very heavy price for the mismanagement --
that's the kindest word I can give you -- of Donald Rumsfeld,
of this war. The price is very, very heavy and I regret it enormously.
I think that Donald Rumsfeld will go down in history as one
of the worst secretaries of defense in history.
John McCain
On Iraq War, February 2007. |
Do you know why Chelsea Clinton is so ugly? Because Janet
Reno is her father.
John McCain
Reportedly said at a Republican Senate
fundraiser in 1998. |
Do not yield. Do not flinch. Stand up. Stand up with our President
and fight. We're Americans. We're Americans, and we'll never
surrender. They will.
John McCain
Speech to Republican National Convention,
August 2004. |
I hate the gooks. I will hate them as long as I live.
John McCain
About his North Vietnamese prison guards. |
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 rerun.
John McCain
'Faith of My Fathers' family memoir by
John McCain and Mark Salter, November 1999. |
I am a Republican. I'm loyal to the party of Abraham Lincoln
and Theodore Roosevelt. And I believe that my party, in some
ways, has strayed from those principles, particularly on the
issue of fiscal discipline.
John McCain |
I don't doubt the sincerity of my Democratic friends. And
they should not doubt ours.
John McCain
Speech to Republican National Convention,
August 2004. |
I'm as frustrated with the French, I think, as anyone, but
look, there's going to be other challenges and there are going
to be other issues. As long as there's a war on terrorism going
on, we're all going to have to work together.
John McCain
On France's stance on Iraq, interview March
2003. |
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