Quotes by John McCain

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Remember the words of Chairman Mao: Its always darkest before its totally black..”

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

“Do not yield. Do not flinch. Stand up. Stand up with our President and fight. Were Americans. Were Americans, and well never surrender. They will.”

“I am a Republican. Im 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.”

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

“Because the people of New Hampshire take their responsibilities as citizens of the Republic seriously, they keep it interesting for candidates who, believe it or not, can get a little tired of the mannered, predictable, and unimaginative qualities that typically afflict modern political campaigns.”

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

In prison, I fell in love with my country. I had loved her before then, but like most young people, my affection was little more than a simple appreciation for the comforts and privileges most Americans enjoyed and took for granted. It wasnt until I had lost America for a time that I realized how much I loved her.

Ironically for someone who had so long asserted his own individuality as his first and best defense against insults of any kind, I discovered that faith in myself proved to be the least formidable strength I possessed when confronting alone organized inhumanity on a greater scale than I had conceived possible. Faith in myself was important, and remains important to my self esteem. But I discovered in prison that faith in myself alone, sep0arate from other, more important allegiances , was ultimately no match for the cruelty that human beings could devise when they were entirely unencumbered by respect for the God given dignity of man. This is the lesson I learned in prison. It is, perhaps, the most important lesson I have ever learned.

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

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

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

As far as this business of solitary confinement goes, the most important thing for survival is communication with someone, even if its only a wave or a wink, a tap on the wall, or to have a guy put his thumb up. It makes all the difference.

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.

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

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.

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.