I'm sick and tired - and the American people are sick and tired - of the pork barrel spending.
— John McCain
My record shows that I have put my country first, and I follow the philosophy and traditions of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan.
I consider myself a Christian. I attend church. My faith has sustained me in very difficult times.
I've always given presidents the benefit of the doubt on their nominees.
I get along with the Democrats, but please - I'm not their hero.
I used to write books and plays in my mind, but I doubt that any of them would have been above the level of the cheapest dime novel.
For much of my life, the Navy was the only world I knew. It is still the world I know best and love most.
I think it's important for the president of the United States to be aware of the intelligence information that we have.
Sometimes it's important to watch what the president does rather than what he says.
We need a free press. We must have it. It's vital.
I think it's important for Donald Trump to express his appreciation for veterans - not John McCain, but veterans who were incarcerated as prisoners of war.
I don't think Roger Ailes is ham-fisted.
Saddam Hussein is a risk-taking aggressor who has attacked four countries, used chemical weapons against his own people, professed a desire to harm the United States and its allies, and, even faced with the prospect of his regime's imminent destruction, has still refused to abide by Security Council demands that he disarm.
As he assumes the awesome responsibilities of the presidency, Donald Trump has inherited a world on fire and a U.S. military weakened by years of senseless budget cuts. I am encouraged that he recognizes these problems and has pledged to rebuild the military.
I have certainly seen my share of the world as it really is and not how I wish it would be.
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.
I know that victims of torture will offer intentionally misleading information if they think their captors will believe it.
You raise taxes during an economic crisis time, as we did in - back in the time of Herbert Hoover, you send the country into a depression.
I think it's important that the President of the United States consult as widely as possible with those who have different views so that he can - he or she - can make the most informed decisions.
Government should take care of those in America who can't care for themselves. That's a role of government.
Russia's leaders, rich with oil wealth and corrupt with power, have rejected democratic ideals and the obligations of a responsible power.
Some men are much more self-sufficient than others.
As far as this business of solitary confinement goes, the most important thing for survival is communication with someone, even if it's only a wave or a wink, a tap on the wall, or to have a guy put his thumb up. It makes all the difference.
I think ISIS can do terrible things.
China is the one, the only one, that can control Kim Jong Un, this crazy, fat kid that's running North Korea.
Frankly, I would never accept an award from Vladimir Putin because then you kind of give some credence and credibility to this butcher, this KGB agent, which is what he is.
I don't think anybody is - no one could compare to Ronald Reagan, because he was the right man at the right time.
You have to listen to people that have chosen the nominee of our Republican Party. I think it would be foolish to ignore them.
I think that Rand Paul represents a segment of the GOP, just like his father. And I think he is trying to expand that, intelligently, to make it larger.
No one can plausibly argue that ridding the world of Saddam Hussein will not significantly improve the stability of the region and the security of American interests and values.
America didn't invent human rights. Those rights are common to all people: nations, cultures, and religions cannot choose to simply opt out of them.
I consider myself a realist.
We are a country with a conscience.
I know from personal experience that the abuse of prisoners will produce more bad than good intelligence.
I believe that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein. I believe it's clear that he had every intention to acquire and use weapons of mass destruction. I can only imagine what Saddam Hussein would be doing with the wealth he would acquire with oil at $110 and $120 a barrel.
Most great leaders in history that I've studied always need to get as wide a range of opinions as possible so that they can have sufficient information to make the right decisions.
I guess my view is I believe less governance is best governance and that government should not do what the free enterprise and private enterprise and indidividual entrepreneurship and the states can do.
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.
I have watched men suffer the anguish of imprisonment, defy appalling human cruelty... break for a moment, then recover inhuman strength to defy their enemies once more.
Putin wants to restore the Russian empire. That's his ambition; he's stated it many times.
I admire the Islam. There's a lot of good principles in it.
If you want to preserve - I'm very serious now - if you want to preserve democracy as we know it, you have to have a free and many times adversarial press. And without it, I am afraid that we would lose so much of our individual liberties over time. That's how dictators get started.
I think that it's important that we understand the importance of the Hispanic vote in America.
I think that Fox News is a bit schizophrenic.
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.
I am frustrated and outraged by the slow nature of change at the VA.
In the real world, as lived and experienced by real people, the demand for human rights and dignity, the longing for liberty and justice and opportunity, the hatred of oppression and corruption and cruelty is reality.
Depriving the oppressed of a beacon of hope could lose us the world we have built and thrived in. It could cost our reputation in history as the nation distinct from all others in our achievements, our identity, and our enduring influence on mankind. Our values are central to all three.
I know in war good people can feel obliged for good reasons to do things they would normally object to and recoil from.
