John McCain Want Quotations

The way you have bipartisan negotiations, you sit down across the table, as we did with Ted Kennedy, as I've done with many other members, and you say, 'OK, here's what I want, here's what you want. We'll adhere to your principles, but we'll make concessions.'

I'm not sure, if I were President Clinton, I wouldn't want to be pardoned for something that I believed that I didn't do.

I want to emphasis again, Governor (Thomas) Kean and Congressman (Lee) Hamilton pointed out that congressional oversight also was a major contributor to our failures prior to 9/11 and that has to be fixed as well.

So Ahmadinejad wants to be the first Iranian in space - wasn't he there just last week? 'Iran launches monkey into space.'

The last thing members of the committee want to do is pass legislation.

I intend to do what I can, working with my congressional colleagues, Republicans and Democrats, to help bring about the changes to the practices and institutions of our democracy that they want and deserve.

I want to tell the vice president and everybody else that when I'm president there will be a controlling legal authority.

I would never want to see myself viewed as beating the drums of war, ... but I would rather live with that image than look into the mirror and see a member of Congress who failed to do his duty.

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

Americans want to win; bin Laden thinks he's winning now.

People want the truth, even if they disagree.