A biography for John McCainhasn’t been written yet.
“As chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, I am confronted every day with the security concerns and threats to our own nation's safety, as well as threats to the rest of the world.”
“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.”
“I get along with the Democrats, but please - I'm not their hero.”
“A strong E.U., a strong NATO, and a true strategic partnership between them is profoundly in our interest.”
“I tell the same stories all the time because I like them!”
“We all know spending levels for defense and other urgent priorities have been woefully inadequate for years. But we haven't found the will to work together to adjust them.”
“I fell in love with my country when I was a prisoner in someone else's.”
“During one period while I was in solitary, I memorized the names of all 335 of the men who were then prisoners of war in North Vietnam. I can still remember them.”
“You have to listen to people that have chosen the nominee of our Republican Party. I think it would be foolish to ignore them.”
“It is foolish to view realism and idealism as incompatible or to consider our power and wealth as encumbered by the demands of justice, morality, and conscience.”
“But we should be mindful as we argue about our differences that so much more unites than divides us. We should also note that our differences, when compared with those in many, if not most, other countries, are smaller than we sometimes imagine them to be.”
“Putin wants to restore the Russian empire. That's his ambition; he's stated it many times.”
“Americans want jobs. They want affordable health insurance. They want an education.”
“I think that it's important that we understand the importance of the Hispanic vote in America.”
“The truth is sometimes a hard pill to swallow. It sometimes causes us difficulties at home and abroad. It is sometimes used by our enemies in attempts to hurt us. But the American people are entitled to it, nonetheless.”
“Russia's leaders, rich with oil wealth and corrupt with power, have rejected democratic ideals and the obligations of a responsible power.”
“Public life has many more privileges than hardships.”
“I've always given presidents the benefit of the doubt on their nominees.”
“Sen. Obama comes from the old Chicago machine politics and has never taken on the special interests in his party on a major issue ever.”
“I'm not against a border wall, OK, but go to China, and you'll see a border wall there. We need technology, we need drones, we need surveillance capabilities, and we need rapid-reaction capabilities.”