Mccain Quotes

One of the last books I read was 'Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime' by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin. It gives a really good behind-the-scenes look at the campaigns. I didn't ask the president how accurate it was. I wouldn't ask him that.

I am certain that the United States next year, under a new president - regardless whether it's Obama or McCain - will present an ambitious program promoting renewable energies and energy efficiency. Europe could quickly fall behind.

I can't stand John McCain.

If both John McCain and Obama were given a sip of truth serum, both would admit they made serious mistakes in choosing running mates in 2008.

Any concerns that Romney will adopt McCain's milquetoast campaign model are quickly diminishing.

Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel's. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under a McCain administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change.

The Republican Party, which John McCain led as our nominee in 2008, is going to become irrelevant if we become the party of intolerance and hate. The party founded by Abraham Lincoln was a party that fought slavery and intolerance at every level.

In 2008, Barack Obama did get Democrats hyperventilating, whipped up to a creamy froth, while John McCain creaked ahead like a cranky granddad whom Republicans let move to the front of the buffet line, deferring to seniority, as they had in 1996, when Bob Dole turtled to the top of the ticket.

In politics there are some candidates who use change to promote their careers, and then there are those like John McCain who use their careers to promote change.

A strong economy depends on a strong middle class, but George Bush has put the middle class in a hole, and John McCain has a plan to keep digging that hole with George Bush's shovel.

McCain I'd vote against under any circumstance.

In choosing Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate, John McCain has chosen for the future.

Some of the reasons John McCain lost in 2008 were his lackluster campaign, his refusal to showcase Obama's extreme liberalism and, thus, his failure to demonstrate why he would make a better president than Obama.

I could have possibly beaten Senator McCain in the primary. Then I could have been the candidate who lost to Barack Obama.

I don't know Gov. Palin. I've certainly seen her, since she came on the scene, you know, running with John McCain.

John McCain has become the de facto running mate of George W. Bush.

'Not again!' I thought to myself this morning, as news trickled out that John McCain was set to pick Alaska governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. Not again, because too often women are promoted for the wrong reasons, and then blamed when things don't go right.

McCain needs Hillary to run because that's what keeps the Republican coalition together. She helps unite the Republican base.

For a season, a gifted speaker can inspire with his words, but for a lifetime John McCain has inspired with his deeds.

Far be it from me to denigrate Senator McCain's advice on vice presidential nominees.

I had supported Governor George W. Bush over Senator John McCain in the 2000 Rhode Island presidential primary.

It must kill George Bush that John McCain is the most popular and Beloved Republican in America.

I voted for McCain.

I'm very disappointed with the McCain campaign. In my opinion, it was inept.

I don't know a single Republican in Montana who would get in a fight in a bowling alley for John McCain.

John McCain was victimized in the South Carolina primary.

Palin was a political Hail Mary, a long bomb in the closing minutes of a game that John McCain and Co. were certain to lose. They didn't care if she had the policy or political or emotional capacity to serve as vice president, let alone president. They were willing to drive the country off a cliff, if that's what it took to win.

I think he intends to run for president... I think Senator McCain cares about the opinions of New Hampshire voters.

The campaigns of Steve Forbes, Pat Buchanan, Ross Perot, and John McCain all outperformed expectations on their support from independent voters. They made no effort to shy away from ideology, but conveyed to voters that their policies were driven by principle, not party talking points.

I don't go tanning anymore because Obama put a 10 percent tax on tanning. McCain would never put a 10 percent tax on tanning. Because he's pale and would probably want to be tan.