John McCain Quotes

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John McCain Quotes

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  • "Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno." (June, 1998)

• • "War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality." (May 6, 1999)

• • "I spent five and a half years in prison. The worst part was coming home and finding out Green Acres had been canceled. What the hell was I fighting for?" (2000)

• • "Americans are very frustrated, and they have every right to be. We’ve wasted a lot of our most precious treasure, which is American lives." (2007)

• • "The issue of economics is not something I’ve understood as well as I should. I’ve got Greenspan’s book." (January 14, 2008)

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  • "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 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."

• • "My greatest fear is the Iranians acquire a nuclear weapon and give it to a terrorist organization. And there is a real threat of them doing that."

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

• • "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."

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  • "Our nation has both an obligation and self-interest in facing head-on the serious environmental, economic and national security threat posed by global warming."

• • "We are taught to understand, correctly, that courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity for action despite our fears."

• • "Presidential ambition is a disease that can only be cured by embalming fluid."

• • "An act of heroism, of extraordinary courage, the grandeur of it, won't easily inspire us to act in imitation, but it can inspire us to emulate its author. For that, we should learn what we can of the whole experience of the subject, the hero's life, as it was before and after, and believe that trying to emulate the character it reveals is one tried way to prepare for the tests that might await us and gain hope that our courage will not be wanting in the moment."

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