Quotes from John McCain

Our political differences, no matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding convictions.

When a president makes life and death decisions, he should draw strength and wisdom from broad and deep experience with the reasons for and the risks of committing our children to our defense. For no matter how many others are involved in the decision, the president is a lonely man in a dark room when the casualty reports come in.

You have to listen to people that have chosen the nominee of our Republican Party. I think it would be foolish to ignore them.

I think that it's important that we understand the importance of the Hispanic vote in America.

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

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.

When we're talking about a trillion dollars of taxpayer money, "trust me" just isn't good enough.

Do we really want another politician in the White House America can't trust?

At no time have I ever done anything that would betray the public trust.

I am the son and grandson of Navy admirals, and I was born into America's service. It wasn't until I was deprived of her company that I fell in love with America.

I'm sick and tired - and the American people are sick and tired - of the pork barrel spending.

My record shows that I have put my country first, and I follow the philosophy and traditions of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan.

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

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

I am proud to be a conservative ... but I am also proud throughout my life to have attracted the support and the love and affection of people from all over America and all parts of it.

We have to love our freedom, not just for the private opportunities it provides, but for the goodness it makes possible.

Americans want jobs. They want affordable health insurance. They want an education.

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.

I disagree with what the majority of the American people want.

I've tried to say that I admire and respect Sen. Obama. He has accomplished great things, and he has motivated people, and so - and he loves his country, just as I do.

I'm sick and tired of only being asked about everything that Donald Trump says or does.

I spent several years in a north Vietnamese prison camp in the dark, fed with scraps. Do you think I want to do that all over again as vice president of the United States?

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.

Gary Bauer has done great things, ... I want to promise you again, you may agree with me, you may disagree with me, but I will do great things.