John McCain Quotes - Page 12

God may have mercy, but we won't.

We have a lot of work to do and I‘m afraid that it‘s a very hard struggle, particularly given the situation on the Iraq/Pakistan border.

What I don't know is what the unexpected might be.

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.

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.

I will conduct a respectful debate. Now, it will be dispirited -- it will be spirited -- because there are stark differences. I am a proud conservative, liberal Republica-- conservative Republican...Hello? Easy there.

Do you know why Chelsea Clinton is so ugly? Because Janet Reno is her father.

I'm going to be honest: I know a lot less about economics than I do about military and foreign policy issues. I still need to be educated.

I am a computer illiterate that has to rely on my wife for all of the assistance I can get.

I 'Don't See How It Matters' That I Don't Know The Price Of Gas.

There are neighborhoods in Baghdad where you and I could walk through those neighborhoods today.

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.

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

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.

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

I don’t e-mail, I’ve never felt the particular need to e-mail.

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

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

My patriotism and my conscience required me to support it and to engage in the debate over whether and how to fight it.

We can't cut and run.

Improve human intelligence to get Osama bin Laden.

We are an unfinished nation.

This is the free enterprise system. The only place in the world that I can recall where companies never failed was the old Soviet Union. This is what investors do in free enterprise and capitalism system. [...[ And, yes, free enterprise system can be cruel. But the problem with this administration is that small businesses are the one who had suffered the most, the kind that need investors, the kinds that don't need the hundreds of pages, thousands of pages of regulations that continue to plague them and have them hold back on the hiring investment.

As a governor and senator, John Chafee set the standard for honesty and decency that the rest of us on our best days could only dream to emulate.

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.