John McCain quote: "Every day, people serve their neighbors and our nation in many different ways, from helping a child learn and easing the loneliness of those without a family to defending our freedom overseas. It is in this spirit of dedication to others and to our country that I believe service should be broadly and deeply encouraged."

As he assumes the awesome responsibilities of the presidency, Donald Trump has inherited a world on ...
JOHN MCCAIN

But please know, whether you believe campaign contributions are speech or property, that I learned t...
JOHN MCCAIN

On Putin's order, Russia intervenes in Syria not to fight terrorists but to abet the war crimes ...
JOHN MCCAIN

I deplore this kind of politics. I think the ad is dishonest and dishonorable. As it is, none of the...
JOHN MCCAIN

Saddam Hussein is a risk-taking aggressor who has attacked four countries, used chemical weapons aga...
JOHN MCCAIN

And, if we lost, then who win? Did Al Qaida win? When on the floor of the House of Representatives t...
JOHN MCCAIN

Personally, I liked Admiral Kelso very much. I believe that he served his country with distinction.
JOHN MCCAIN

The United States expects a lot of its partners and allies, including joint patrolling, significant ...
JOHN MCCAIN

The way you have bipartisan negotiations, you sit down across the table, as we did with Ted Kennedy,...
JOHN MCCAIN

Our shared values define us more than our differences. And acknowledging those shared values can see...
JOHN MCCAIN

I think it's important for the president of the United States to be aware of the intelligence in...
JOHN MCCAIN

If you want to preserve - I'm very serious now - if you want to preserve democracy as we know it...
JOHN MCCAIN

Putin's Russia is our adversary and moral opposite. It is committed to the destruction of the po...
JOHN MCCAIN

Our political differences, now matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in compa...
JOHN MCCAIN

Civic participation over a lifetime, working in neighborhoods and communities and service of all kin...
JOHN MCCAIN

I believe in evolution. But I also believe, when I hike the Grand Canyon and see it at sunset, that ...
JOHN MCCAIN

Remember the words of Chairman Mao: 'It's always darkest before it's totally black.'...
JOHN MCCAIN

Giap was a master of logistics, but his reputation rests on more than that. His victories were achie...
JOHN MCCAIN

When a president makes life and death decisions, he should draw strength and wisdom from broad and d...
JOHN MCCAIN

Frankly, I would never accept an award from Vladimir Putin because then you kind of give some creden...
JOHN MCCAIN

The United States must look beyond Mr. Putin. His regime may appear imposing, but it is rotting insi...
JOHN MCCAIN

On the subject of Osama bin Laden... we will track him down. We will capture him. We will bring him ...
JOHN MCCAIN

Politics abhors a vacuum, and Asian countries will gravitate towards China if U.S. influence is perc...
JOHN MCCAIN

The tea partiers are a great addition. The tea partiers have invigorated a base that has been dorman...
JOHN MCCAIN

As chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, I am confronted every day with the security conc...
JOHN MCCAIN

Our armed forces will fight for peace in Iraq, a peace built on more secure foundations than are fou...
JOHN MCCAIN

I have watched men suffer the anguish of imprisonment, defy appalling human cruelty... break for a m...
JOHN MCCAIN

Barbara Boxer is the most bitterly partisan, most anti-defense senator in the United States Senate t...
JOHN MCCAIN

True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read; and i...
JOHN MCCAIN

No one can plausibly argue that ridding the world of Saddam Hussein will not significantly improve t...
JOHN MCCAIN

Political leaders are not and cannot reasonably be expected to be indifferent to the cruelest calumn...
JOHN MCCAIN

The first pork-barrel bill that crosses my desk, I'm going to veto it and make the authors of th...
JOHN MCCAIN

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

Depriving the oppressed of a beacon of hope could lose us the world we have built and thrived in. It...
JOHN MCCAIN

I think I am becoming incapable of being too surprised. But it just makes me sad and sick.
JOHN MCCAIN

I am a Republican. I'm loyal to the party of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. And I belie...
JOHN MCCAIN

We have $10 million for the Bering Sea crab disasters, $10 million for a Northeast fishery, seven fo...
JOHN MCCAIN

The decisions have to be made at the highest level,
JOHN MCCAIN

I think we also ought to prepare the American public, by way of informing them, that Saddam Hussein ...
JOHN MCCAIN

The vice president is again raising the specter of Social Security to frighten senior citizens, ... ...
JOHN MCCAIN

The American taxpayers are counting on you.
JOHN MCCAIN

It is completely inappropriate to place a hold on the promotion of scores of service men and women w...
JOHN MCCAIN

We cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves, from ourselves.
JOHN MCCAIN

I am prepared. I am prepared. I need no on-the-job training. I wasn't a mayor for a short period of ...
JOHN MCCAIN

take the surplus and put it into Social Security and pay down the debt. We ought to pay down the deb...
JOHN MCCAIN

The smartest person in the United States Senate, and he knows it, is John Sununu. Thank God he had h...
JOHN MCCAIN

We need to make sure that we fix it this time, because what if that had been an act of terrorism? .....
JOHN MCCAIN

I don't think we should ignore any option.
JOHN MCCAIN

What we've seen in the past is an irresistible temptation on the part of some members of Congress to...
JOHN MCCAIN

We are going to end up with the highest deficit, probably, in the history of this country,
JOHN MCCAIN

a bit of a charade.
JOHN MCCAIN

It's pretty clear we have enough Guard people in the United States, but are they capable of handling...
JOHN MCCAIN

the matter continues to be studied.
JOHN MCCAIN

Efforts to bring about democracy have hit a wall and are going backwards,
JOHN MCCAIN

I am fully prepared to be commander in chief, ... I don't need on-the-job training.
JOHN MCCAIN

I don't know what information the president had at the time and what he didn't have, ... So, I think...
JOHN MCCAIN

The problem, ... is that most members of Congress don't pay attention to what's going on.
JOHN MCCAIN

never had a legitimate government in Saigon that the people believed in and trusted.
JOHN MCCAIN

No, I don't think it is, at least not any time soon given the tenor of politics in America and the c...
JOHN MCCAIN

We won because we're going to take the government out of the hands of the special interests and give...
JOHN MCCAIN

Whoever that is in the middle of there, I'm not going to vote for him.
JOHN MCCAIN

Do not yield. Do not flinch. Stand up. Stand up with our President and fight. We're Americans. We're...
JOHN MCCAIN

We talked with Native Americans whose elders passed down oral history for thousands of years, and th...
JOHN MCCAIN

They're trying to split the baby, ... and I don't think they can do that.
JOHN MCCAIN

Just stop at one of these construction sites and look and see who those workers are. They're all His...
JOHN MCCAIN

I believe that Congress will and must act before then to renew its objections to multiple and discri...
JOHN MCCAIN

I believe the Congress of the United States will move forward on this issue. And I believe the Ameri...
JOHN MCCAIN

We need a free press. We must have it. It's vital.
JOHN MCCAIN

The time we're going to pop a cork will be the day that the president of the United States signs thi...
JOHN MCCAIN

I say to our enemies: We are coming. God may have mercy on you, but we won't.
JOHN MCCAIN

I'm not sure, if I were President Clinton, I wouldn't want to be pardoned for something that I belie...
JOHN MCCAIN

My greatest fear is the Iranians acquire a nuclear weapon and give it to a terrorist organization. A...
JOHN MCCAIN

If I'm ringing it like a dinner bell, you've got both feet in the trough, because you have raised fi...
JOHN MCCAIN

We have $10 million for the Bering Sea crab disasters, $10 million for a Northeast fishery, seven fo...
JOHN MCCAIN

couldn't be happier with where we are.
JOHN MCCAIN

My policy preference would be to ban all earmarks. And we're working on various proposals to try to,...
JOHN MCCAIN

If you have a problem, I hope you have a little more privacy than I had.
JOHN MCCAIN

I have announced my candidacy this year again for Miss Congeniality.
JOHN MCCAIN

We know that Medicare's going broke in seven years, but we need to start over. That's what t...
JOHN MCCAIN

I endorse Governor Bush, I endorse Governor Bush, I endorse Governor Bush,
JOHN MCCAIN

There was a realization that there was a loophole that had to be closed,
JOHN MCCAIN

We want the hippie vote, ... There are some great conservatives in the hippie movement, as we all kn...
JOHN MCCAIN

The benefit of an open town hall meeting is one that you get to hear a lot of different views, and t...
JOHN MCCAIN

You raise taxes during an economic crisis time, as we did in - back in the time of Herbert Hoover, y...
JOHN MCCAIN

Look, if Congressman McDermott and Congressman Bonior wanted to go to the floor of the House and que...
JOHN MCCAIN

Because the people of New Hampshire take their responsibilities as citizens of the Republic seriousl...
JOHN MCCAIN

I am a Republican. I'm loyal to the party of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. And I believe t...
JOHN MCCAIN

I spent several years in a North Vietnamese prison camp, in the dark, fed with scraps. Do you think ...
JOHN MCCAIN

America's greatest strength has always been its hopeful vision of human progress.
JOHN MCCAIN

Our enemy doesn't deserve our sympathy, ... but this isn't about who they are. This is about who we ...
JOHN MCCAIN

incredibly full of unnecessary, unwanted, unauthorized, unmitigated pork.
JOHN MCCAIN

The list goes on and on of Saudi failures, and their central role that they have played in one way o...
JOHN MCCAIN

There's one big difference between me and the others -- I won't take every last dime of the surplus ...
JOHN MCCAIN

Things have not gone as we had planned or expected nor as we were told by you, Gen. Myers,
JOHN MCCAIN

The president has realized ... that AIDS is an epidemic. That we do have an obligation,
JOHN MCCAIN

This bill doesn't need a lot of consideration, ... The House has considered it and passed it by larg...
JOHN MCCAIN

We have dug ourselves a deep hole in which the world's only superpower can no longer manage a credib...
JOHN MCCAIN

We ought to have sustained air operations to destroy those capabilities, including the palaces, but ...
JOHN MCCAIN

I think it'll be defeated, primarily because there's a fundamental problem with it, ... Wolf Blitzer...
JOHN MCCAIN

that would basically allow the CIA to engage in torture.
JOHN MCCAIN

The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness...
JOHN MCCAIN

I'm not making any demands nor doing any negotiating, ... I have to also have an allegiance to those...
JOHN MCCAIN

Ah yes, ... but look at our campaign.
JOHN MCCAIN

Theoretically, I obviously wouldn't like it.
JOHN MCCAIN

It's now up to $700 billion. We ought to cancel it, go back to square one.
JOHN MCCAIN

On 'don't ask, don't tell' I was always the same. I said we needed a complete review...
JOHN MCCAIN

Do not yield. Do not flinch. Stand up. Stand up with our President and fight. We're Americans. W...
JOHN MCCAIN

alone in a dark room when the casualty lists come in. I'm not afraid of that burden. I know both the...
JOHN MCCAIN

a dysfunctional organization. It has to be cleaned out.
JOHN MCCAIN

Iowa was the preliminaries, New Hampshire begins the playoffs and I look forward to a spirited conte...
JOHN MCCAIN

But we can recover, ... Reagan recovered. Clinton recovered. We can recover.
JOHN MCCAIN

I thought that John Kerry did a good job style-wise. I think that the president was very convincing ...
JOHN MCCAIN

War is awful. Nothing, not the valor with which it is fought nor the nobility of the cause it serves...
JOHN MCCAIN

There's one fundamental problem with it (the strategy), and that is whether the Iraqis are capable o...
JOHN MCCAIN

I think this is going to be probably the nastiest campaign we've ever seen from both sides because o...
JOHN MCCAIN

I want to emphasis again, Governor (Thomas) Kean and Congressman (Lee) Hamilton pointed out that con...
JOHN MCCAIN

He has not done so, and that, I agree, is a terrible derogation of his responsibilities as commander...
JOHN MCCAIN

We should exhibit no self doubt to our friends, ... Credibility is a strategic asset.
JOHN MCCAIN

What I can do, really, is ask independents to look at him, and I hope that I have the credibility wi...
JOHN MCCAIN

She's entitled to her opinion, ... We just have fundamental disagreements.
JOHN MCCAIN

And we went in, and then we pulled out. As Napoleon said, if you say you're going to take Vienna, yo...
JOHN MCCAIN

Glory is not a conceit. It is not a decoration for valor. Glory belongs to the act of being constant...
JOHN MCCAIN

Let us have the administration come to Congress. I think they will get that authority, whatever is r...
JOHN MCCAIN

Remember the words of Chairman Mao: 'It's always darkest before it's totally black.'.
JOHN MCCAIN

I'm proud that I have supported many of the issues that have to do with family values,
JOHN MCCAIN

This is deeply unwise,
JOHN MCCAIN

I am not Bush!
JOHN MCCAIN

Any voter with a healthy understanding of the flaws of human nature and who notices the vast amounts...
JOHN MCCAIN

War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel realit...
JOHN MCCAIN

I guess my view is I believe less governance is best governance and that government should not do wh...
JOHN MCCAIN

Governor Bush says he wants unlimited contributions,
JOHN MCCAIN

an ambiguous political position to seek shelter behind.
JOHN MCCAIN

I don't think anybody is - no one could compare to Ronald Reagan, because he was the right man a...
JOHN MCCAIN

Most great leaders in history that I've studied always need to get as wide a range of opinions a...
JOHN MCCAIN

For Mr. Putin, vacillation invites aggression. His world is a brutish, cynical place, where power is...
JOHN MCCAIN

I did not tell Governor Ridge that I was interested. My conversations with Governor Ridge, however, ...
JOHN MCCAIN

I guess it was bound to happen. Governor Bush's campaign is getting desperate with a negative ad abo...
JOHN MCCAIN

The governor is going to take you wherever he goes.
JOHN MCCAIN

I think it's a disgrace,
JOHN MCCAIN

Just by coincidence, Senator Teddy Kennedy and I, in the last couple of days, after several months o...
JOHN MCCAIN

Can we really afford to wait until 2009 before we go ahead and transfer this spectrum?
JOHN MCCAIN

He's (Bush) said he's a reformer with results. That's his slogan. I'd like to know what those are an...
JOHN MCCAIN

do not operate according to the Geneva Conventions.
JOHN MCCAIN

We must win in Iraq. If we withdraw, there will be chaos; there will be genocide; and they will foll...
JOHN MCCAIN

I think it's important that the President of the United States consult as widely as possible wit...
JOHN MCCAIN

appeared slow and tepid.
JOHN MCCAIN

I consider myself a realist.
JOHN MCCAIN

I think that Rand Paul represents a segment of the GOP, just like his father. And I think he is tryi...
JOHN MCCAIN

The French repulsed wave after wave of frontal attacks at Dien Bien Phu. The 1968 Tet offensive agai...
JOHN MCCAIN

I know in war good people can feel obliged for good reasons to do things they would normally object ...
JOHN MCCAIN

The American people want us to stop spending. And so let's just give them some certainty. Let...
JOHN MCCAIN

[McCain had to defend himself on the same issue. Pressed by conservative commentator Alan Keyes on a...
JOHN MCCAIN

I believe the transition can be made by then.
JOHN MCCAIN

As far as this business of solitary confinement goes, the most important thing for survival is commu...
JOHN MCCAIN

In 1987, I had my first opportunity to provide 'advice and consent' on a Supreme Court nomin...
JOHN MCCAIN

To argue against the global economy is like stating opposition to the weather - it continues whether...
JOHN MCCAIN

My record shows that I have put my country first, and I follow the philosophy and traditions of Abra...
JOHN MCCAIN

We owe them better communications systems so that when they are called upon to assist in the next di...
JOHN MCCAIN

[Referring to Bush's comments that the New Hampshire outcome had been a] bump in the road, ... I'm t...
JOHN MCCAIN

While parts of his proposal merit serious consideration, to convince a skeptical public that his eff...
JOHN MCCAIN

I know where a lot of them [the elite or elitists] live.

Where's that?

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JOHN MCCAIN

I'm just delighted to get my hands on him. Paul Nicholls was very good about the whole affair. He sa...
GINGER MCCAIN

Paul was very good about the whole affair and said that if Inca Trail adapts to Liverpool and goes a...
GINGER MCCAIN

I like Inca Trail very much and obviously he's a horse who will be going there with a definite chanc...
GINGER MCCAIN

When you make two errors in the game, it puts you in a position to lose. But when you make eight err...
MIKE MCCAIN

When I was in London in 2008, I spent a couple hours hanging out at a pub with a couple of blokes wh...
ROBERT STACY MCCAIN

My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of so...
JOHN OLIVER

Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is al...
JOHN BERGER

No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the mai...
JOHN WYCLIFFE

By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Am...
JOHN ROBERTS

Human beings, we have dark sides; we have dark issues in our lives. To progress anywhere in life, yo...
JOHN NOBLE

Learn as many mistakes and what not to do while your business or product is small. Don't be in s...
DAYMOND JOHN

Being thrown into the fire and getting the thing turned around in a hurry made it more difficult. Th...
JOHN ELWAY

This Constitution was not made for a day, nor is it composed of such flexible materials as to be war...
JOHN TYLER

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
JOHN LENNON

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
JOHN MORTIMER

No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
JOHN JAY

Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
JOHN LOCKE

High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just ...
JOHN MAYER

When I was growing up in rural Alabama, it was impossible for me to register to vote. I didn't b...
JOHN LEWIS

The documented incidences of voter fraud are very rare, yet throughout the country, forces have mobi...
JOHN LEWIS

Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the ...
JOHN CALVIN

I was introduced to the Turducken in New Orleans. And it wasn't Thanksgiving. Glenn at the Gourm...
JOHN MADDEN

Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fa...
JOHN CLAYTON

Is it possible that the portrait of the divine Son of God is an exaggeration, at best, or a complete...
JOHN CLAYTON

Was the real Jesus of history one and the same as the Christ of faith whom we read about in the New ...
JOHN CLAYTON

I believe any question that man can ask has a reasonable answer-at least an answer that is as consis...
JOHN CLAYTON

Almost every time I am in a lectureship on a college campus, young people will say, If there is a Go...
JOHN CLAYTON

I guess none of us like to look back in our lives to a time when we made poor judgments and foolish ...
JOHN CLAYTON

In the surface of the paper there is only length and width-there is no such thing as thickness.
JOHN CLAYTON

Why is it any more reasonable to believe that God has always been than it is to say that matter has ...
JOHN CLAYTON

What is the origin of God?
JOHN CLAYTON

The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and e...
JOHN CLAYTON

The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing...
JOHN CLAYTON

Not only are Christians writing about Jesus, but also Communists, Jews, atheists and agnostics are t...
JOHN CLAYTON

There was no instruction to be thankful that the Christians were special people, chosen people. Ther...
JOHN CLAYTON

It is my fervent hope and prayer that by exposing my mistakes and by pointing out the things that we...
JOHN CLAYTON

We are assuming that we exist, that there is reality, and that the matter of which we are made is re...
JOHN CLAYTON

The purpose of this study is to offer a logical, practical, pragmatic proof of the existence of God ...
JOHN CLAYTON

Since I was an atheist for many years and came to believe in God through my studies in science, it f...
JOHN CLAYTON

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