John McCain Biography

“But please know, whether you believe campaign contributions are speech or property, that I learned to love very dearly the right of free expression when I lived without that freedom for a while a long time ago.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I don't doubt the sincerity of my Democratic friends. And they should not doubt ours.”

“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.”

“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.”

“We will track him [Osama Bin Laden] down. We will capture him. We will bring him to justice, and I will follow him to the gates of hell.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Thank God for our form of government. The media won't let there be any cover-up.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“We cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves, from ourselves.”

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