Top 100 Mccain's Quotes
#1. A top McCain policy adviser claimed this week that McCain's work in the Senate helped create the BlackBerry, saying, 'You're looking at the miracle that John McCain helped create.' He then handed the BlackBerry to McCain, who attempted to withdraw $20 from it.
Amy Poehler
#2. When liberals start acting like they're opposed to pre-marital sex and mothers having careers, you know McCain's vice presidential choice has knocked them back on their heels.
Ann Coulter
#3. You can buy [John McCain's] book, but in a week and a half, he'll have another.
Jon Stewart
#4. Far be it from me to denigrate Senator McCain's advice on vice presidential nominees.
David Axelrod
#5. John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as running mate is the towering example of his poor judgment. Palin's ignorance of public affairs is monumental.
Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
#6. Women are more than smart enough to see that McCain's policies are a disaster ... He is anti- every reproductive issue we've ever fought for.
Gloria Steinem
#7. It is clear to me that Democrats want to attack me rather than debate Sen. McCain on important economic issues facing the country. That kind of distraction hurts not only Sen. McCain's ability to present concrete programs to deal with the country's problems; it hurts the country.
Phil Gramm
#8. I would rather live in McCain's world than Obama's. But I believe that we live in Obama's world.
Sally Quinn
#9. Although I've been a longtime Democrat (primarily because, unless there is some very compelling reason to be otherwise, I am always for 'the little guy'), my political orientation is not rigid. For instance, I supported John McCain's run for the presidency in 2000.
Vincent Bugliosi
#10. Any concerns that Romney will adopt McCain's milquetoast campaign model are quickly diminishing.
David Limbaugh
#11. I took a lot of heat from Republicans when I stepped out of John McCain's campaign after the 2008 primaries. I still supported McCain, and voted for him, but I just didn't want to be the tip of the spear attacking Obama.
Mark McKinnon
#12. In 2008, Obama won 56 percent of the women's vote to John McCain's 43 percent. It was the critical difference in the race.
Juan Williams
#13. 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.
David Limbaugh
#14. John McCain responded to critics who say he's too old for a sixth term by saying that his mother is 103 years old and doing well. The crazy thing is that even she is somehow younger than John McCain.
Jimmy Fallon
#15. Last week John McCain said the fundamentals of our economy are strong. This week, he said it's the worst crisis since World War II. So he suspended his campaign, unless you count doing interviews, airing attack ads, sending out surrogates on TV to attack Obama.
Bill Maher
#16. We know that this nation entered into solemn treaties [with Indian tribes] which have been continuously violated for more than 250 years. It's a disgrace. It's an outrage. We must do everything in our power to keep those treaties. Otherwise, the word of the United States government is no good.
John McCain
#17. It's not because John McCain doesn't care. It's because John McCain doesn't get it.
Barack Obama
#18. I fully support the NOH8 campaign and all it stands for and am proud to be a part of it. But I stand by my husband's stance on DADT.
Cindy McCain
#19. The American people want us to stop spending. And so let's just give them some certainty. Let's extend the tax - the existing tax cuts. And then let's give some more tax breaks to small businesses and large. And then maybe the American people will have some confidence.
John McCain
#20. McCain needs Hillary to run because that's what keeps the Republican coalition together. She helps unite the Republican base.
Chuck Todd
#21. I don't think it's bribery; I think it's extortion. Bribery, you know, is when the person that's giving the money does it voluntarily. What it is in Washington is extortion because they all ask for the money.
John McCain
#22. I'm just trying to keep things normal around the house, because there's no reason why things shouldn't be normal.
John McCain
#23. When a major airline goes on a route that a new entrant has gone into, reduces fares, increases capacity, and then when the new entrant goes off, they leave the route, that's not competition.
John McCain
#24. As long as Americans are not being injured or harmed or wounded or killed, it's fine with me and I hope it would be fine with you if we maintain a presence in a very volatile part of the world where al Qaeda is training, recruiting, equipping and motivating people every single day.
John McCain
#25. John McCain said that Barack Obama is already measuring the drapes in the White House. That's what he said. I understand Sarah Palin is already driving McCain around to look at assisted living facilities.
Jay Leno
#26. When you run ads saying you are going to save social security, my friend, that's all hat and no cattle.
John McCain
#27. 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.
Sigmar Gabriel
#28. The abuse of prisoners hurts America's cause in the war on terror, endangers U.S. service members who might be captured by the enemy, and is anathema to the values Americans have held dear for generations.
John McCain
#29. The issue of economics is not something I've understood as well as I should. I've got Greenspan's book.
John McCain
#30. Responsibility always stops at the president's desk.
John McCain
#31. And by the way, I would not only reappoint Greenspan; if Greenspan would happen to die, God forbid, I would do like they did in the movie 'Weekend at Bernie's.' I would prop him up and put a pair of dark glasses on him.
John McCain
#32. I think that Joe Biden is qualified in many respects. But I do point out that he's been wrong on many foreign policy and national security issues, which is supposed to be his strength.
John McCain
#33. What were you going to do with it?" McCain asked.
"I just thought it might come in useful."
"Were you planning to attack me?"
"No. But that's a good idea.
Anthony Horowitz
#34. One can look at John McCain and say that he's not ready to be commander-in-chief.
Rudy Giuliani
#35. It's impossible to imagine the Democratic Party seeking a pro-life, free-trading, non-protectionist, deficit hawk.
John McCain
#36. I would like to mention that a couple days ago Senator Obama was out in Ohio and he had an encounter with a guy who's a plumber, his name is Joe Wurzelbacher.
John McCain
#37. In a new videotape message, Texas Gov. Rick Perry urges his supporters to follow him on 'Tweeter.' After hearing about it, John McCain laughed and said, What an idiot! It's 'The Tweeter.'
Conan O'Brien
#38. I thought that Donald Trump's ascendancy would end when he attacked John McCain, saying he's not a war hero. I found that shocking, for him to say that.
Cory Booker
#39. Perhaps McCain has opposed affirmative action for so long that he doesn't know it's about inviting more people to meet standards, not lowering them.
Gloria Steinem
#40. Remember the words of Chairman Mao: 'It's always darkest before it's totally black.'.
John McCain
#41. The smartest person in the United States Senate, and he knows it, is John Sununu. Thank God he had his mother's temperament.
John McCain
#42. I've campaigned many, many times together with Senator McCain. He's campaigned for me; I've campaigned for him, good friend.
Rudy Giuliani
#43. It's always the wacko birds on right and left that get the media megaphone.
John McCain
#44. Donald Trump got in some trouble for saying that John McCain is not a war hero, and said, 'I like people that weren't captured.' Not good. In fact, Trump's people are telling him to lay low for a while until this all combs over.
Jimmy Fallon
#45. Torture gives you reliable and unreliable information. That's the reason why most people in the world don't do it. So this idea that you have to torture people in order to protect national security is a false argument, and I reject it.
John McCain
#46. In 2008 all the stars aligned perfectly for Obama's 6-point victory over John McCain. He was an inexperienced, untested neophyte, and successfully convinced enough voters to paint their own version of what hope-and-change was all about on the blank canvas he provided.
Bob Beauprez
#47. I think it's a right that every American parent should have - choice and competition in education, and choice in schools are most important to me.
Cindy McCain
#48. 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.
Nicole Polizzi
#49. There's one big difference between me and the others - I won't take every last dime of the surplus and spend it on tax cuts that mostly benefit the wealthy. I'll use the bulk of the surplus to secure Social Security far into the future to keep our promise to the greatest generation.
John McCain
#50. I'll be your crying shoulder, I'll be love's suicide, I'll be better when I'm older, I'll be the greatest fan of your life.
Edwin McCain
#51. John McCain knows as well as anyone that Sarah Palin has no business being anywhere near the Oval Office. I'm sorry, it's got nothing to do with the fact that she wears skirts - she's grossly unqualified.
Ron Reagan
#52. I really like John McCain. He's an awesome dude and was a lot of fun when he hosted "SNL." I'd love to see a McCain-Giuliani "rage" ticket.
Tina Fey
#53. I am the son and grandson of Navy admirals, and I was born into America's service, ... It wasn't until I was deprived of her company that I fell in love with America.
John McCain
#54. My husband's the first one to say, "This is not the end of the world." We're doing what we want to do - what we have chosen to do - and we know the risks involved.
Cindy McCain
#55. I learned the hard way that not only do you not have to be superwoman, but it's better not to be and not to try to be. What I would like to be is just a good person - someone who tries her best and puts her best foot forward.
Cindy McCain
#57. I believe that we're going to find out that America made a lot of mistakes diplomatically, economically, militarily, intel-wise. But, I also think we're going to find out the U.S. has done a lot of good things too.
John McCain
#58. [While] the primary responsibility, as we all acknowledge, (falls) with the family, ... Our homes, our families, our children's minds are being flooded by a tide of violence.
John McCain
#59. The Navy-Marine Corps team is unique in history because its mobility and versatility permit it to make a contribution in virtually every medium of warfare: land, sea and air.
John S. McCain Jr.
#60. I cannot in good conscience vote in favor of tax cuts, irrespective of their size, or to which segment of the population they are targeted, ... Nor can I support any spending increases that are not related to improving our nation's defense from the obvious and serious threats facing us today.
John McCain
#61. John McCain addressed critics who believe he will be too old to run for a sixth term in the Senate, saying that he's still healthy and ready to go. Then people around McCain said, 'Why is he talking to that mannequin?'
Jimmy Fallon
#62. Does it make all the difference in the world? No. But there's a great deal of symbolism associated with whether we're going to add $24 billion to the debt in unwanted and unnecessary pork-barrel projects.
John McCain
#63. You don't have to dumb it down, but you do have to sum it up.
Charles M. Blow
#64. We should be I hope finally realizing what Vladimir Putin is. He's an old colonel, KGB, apparatchik, and he dreams of the restoration of the Russian empire.
John McCain
#65. I know where a lot of them [the elite or elitists] live.
Where's that?
Well, in our nation's capital and New York City. I've seen it. I've lived there.
John McCain
#66. Really, what's not to love in John McCain, satire-wise? As if he had not already been good enough to us, then came his nomination of Sarah Palin. Here, truly, was a gift from the gods of satire.
Christopher Buckley
#67. I have the good fortune of knowing both John McCain and Donald Trump well, both men have more in common than the today's media hype would have you believe. Both blazed trails in their careers and love our great nation.
Sarah Palin
#68. I have said for a long time that I thought the president would be best served if the attorney general resigned so I think it's the right thing to do.
John McCain
#69. If Hillary can't win the nomination - and it's clearly very, very hard for her - she's basically a stalking horse for McCain. She's preparing the demographic ground for McCain, by getting white working-class Democrats used to (if you will) not voting for Obama.
Rich Lowry
#70. Afterwards, on Romney's bus, McCain cracked wise about it. "The choice in the Republican Party has come down to the dog-on-roof guy or the man-on-dog guy?" he said. "I'm with the dog-on-roof guy.
Anonymous
#71. In everything I do, my children come first, and my husband. I just think it's so important to maintain family stability.
Cindy McCain
#72. Work with people who I feel like I'm on the same page with, there's no amount of money in the world that compares to that.
Meghan McCain
#73. There's going to be other wars. I'm sorry to tell you, there's going to be other wars. We will never surrender, but there will be other wars.
John McCain
#74. There's a certain romanticism associated with exploration of space, which is one of the major factors why we'll continue.
John McCain
#75. But I'm still a work in progress. My mother calls me quite frequently with various critiques of my performance on TV and other public events. She's usually pretty severe with her comments.
John McCain
#76. The problem ... is that most members of Congress don't pay attention to what's going on.
John McCain
#77. Being politicians, they all got to sharing their personal stories. Obama talked about his mother's battle with cancer. Harry Reid talked about a kid with a cleft palate. And John McCain told how he once carried a brain dead woman through an entire campaign.
Bill Maher
#78. There's a whole generation that's retiring. It is unconscionable that the average salary of a lawyer is $79,000 a year and the average salary of a teacher is $39,000 a year.
John McCain
#79. Americans have got to understand that we are paying present-day retirees with the taxes paid by young workers in America today. And that's a disgrace. It's an absolute disgrace and it's got to be fixed.
John McCain
#80. As a mother, I - like everyone else - have to fill my gas tank in my car. I have to feed my family. I have to be able to make sure that I can keep a roof over their heads and, with things escalating the way they are, it's very difficult. People are losing their homes.
Cindy McCain
#81. I could not ask for more than the love you give me ... Cause it's all I've waited for ... and I could not ask for more.
Edwin McCain
#82. I think that Obama is very cool. And I think he's clever, and I think he can be witty. But I don't think he's funny in either the way that Reagan was funny - or John McCain and Dick Cheney are both funny in that ruthless, kind of mean way.
Mo Rocca
#83. McCain is the kid who was really cool in middle school but never got high school game and people are sick of him acting like he's still popular.
Adam McKay
#84. I don't think we are comforted by the fact that we were told there would never be a case of Ebola in the United States and obviously that's not correct
John McCain
#85. Arizona Senator John McCain announced that he plans on running for a sixth term because he is concerned about the nation's security. He plans to help just like any other 80-year-old: by sitting on his porch with a police scanner.
Jimmy Fallon
#86. We send cruise missiles and then we think everything's all right or we try to bring them to trial. My friends, this time they've gone too far. This time we're serious. This time we won't quit until they are gone, completely gone from the face of the earth
John McCain
#88. In California, it's hard to buy all the media, no matter how much money you raise or spend, because it's such a huge state.
John McCain
#89. We have a lot of work to do. It's a very hard struggle, particularly given the situation on the Iraq-Pakistan border.
John McCain
#90. I have known Trent Lott for 20 years, ... I don't believe he's racist. But he must proactively send a message to his colleagues in the Senate and the American people that he is absolutely opposed to any segregation in any form and racism in any form and discrimination in any form.
John McCain
#91. Barack Obama's busy moving into the White House. Earlier today, John McCain was blowing on his soup.
David Letterman
#92. You cannot tell the enemy you're going to leave and expect the enemy to not - and expect to succeed. I mean, that's just a fundamental of warfare.
John McCain
#93. I read 'Game Change.' If you want to relive the campaign, that book is unbelievable. It's great. It's the book of that campaign. It brought all the memories back of everything with Clinton and Obama, and Sarah Palin and McCain, and choosing her, and John Edwards. It was an interesting book.
Annette Bening
#94. It's a tough path to citizenship. You've got to pay back taxes. You've got to learn English. You've got to have a clear record. You've got to get to the back of the line behind other people who have come here legally or even waiting legally.
John McCain
#95. Let's not play games. I was suggesting - you're absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith.
Barack Obama
#96. I've already heard from some military commanders who feel they've been undercut by the vice president of the United States, and there's a lot of justification for their view.
John McCain
#97. The words are all gone, the time's been too long but it's not too late to say I'm sorry to a friend
Edwin McCain
#98. America's image throughout the world is very bad.
John McCain
#99. Americans want to win; bin Laden thinks he's winning now.
John McCain
#100. I'm as frustrated with the French, I think, as anyone, but look, there's going to be other challenges and there are going to be other issues. As long as there's a war on terrorism going on, we're all going to have to work together.
John McCain
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