Mccain Quotes

(On Hillary Clinton) A lot of the stuff people say about her, I hear it and my stomach falls because it`s so sexist. You ask people why they don`t like her and it`s because her husband cheated on her! That was obviously not her choice. She`s so much more polished and experienced than anyone else. Last night, a friend, a social worker in L.A. who works with underprivileged kids, was saying how these girls who have never been interested in politics before are so excited that a woman might be president. I mean, look how many women are in government...Hillary`s one of, what, (a handful of) female senators? I also like Obama. I even like McCain. I disagree with his war stance -- which is a really big deal -- but I think he`s a very moral person. I met him and Hillary on the same day, actually, when I went to Washington with Finca (a nonprofit that gives loans to businesswomen in developing countries). Hillary was by far the smartest person I met that day. Just totally focused, and knew more about the issues than anyone else, and was so able to go from one thing to the other.

If John takes over the presidency at seventy-two and he ages 3-to-1, how old will he be in four years? Eighty-four years old - and can he handle that kind of pressure in that job? That`s why I didn`t pick John to support, because I`m just afraid the vice president will wind up taking over his job within that four-year presidency. - On Senator John McCain

Any GOP candidate can be dissected to a point that he is railed for having liberal tendencies. Former New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani has waffled enough around his pro-abortion, pro-gay, pro-gun control views to recruit many Democratic supporters. Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney has flip-flopped so many times on issues of abortion, immigration and gay rights to make one wonder for what party he`s running. Texas Representative Ron Paul`s bent toward being an isolationist who wants to bring home every one of our 572,000 troops abroad makes the anti-terror, pro-military hairs on the back of my neck stand. Though Senator John McCain of Arizona is a friend and a true, decorated hero who I personally think would make an excellent vice president for Mike, he opposed the Bush tax cuts and co-authored legislation for comprehensive immigration reform that some believe jeopardizes national security and American sovereignty. And while former Tennessee Senator Fred Dalton Thompson is also a friend, his record of consistently voting against tort reform, opposing the impeachment of Bill Clinton on perjury, supporting opponents of Ronald Reagan (Gerald Ford and James Baker III) in 1976 and 1980, and failing to support federal constitutional amendments that would ban abortion and gay marriage doesn`t exactly make him "the only true conservative." To be fair, even if Reagan himself were running today, he likely couldn`t dodge liberal labeling, especially for his signing of the Immigration Control and Reform Act of 1986, which granted amnesty to aliens who resided in the U.S. since before 1982.

There`s something about matching the character with the script. And right now, the script that`s being written, and reality, is pretty brutal and pretty hard-edged, like a rough action film, and you need somebody who`s been in that to deal with it. - On Senator John McCain

You can disagree with me on issues, John (John McCain), but do not question - do not question my trustworthiness. And do not compare me to Bill Clinton.

It`s a little different here. George Bush trails by a slim margin in the polls to John McCain; Bill Bradley is the leader over Al Gore. And it`s interesting to see both George Bush and Al Gore paint themselves as the underdog...whereas, in the rest of the nation, that`s not the case.

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

John McCain was victimized in the South Carolina primary.

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

I think it reassures people that John McCain has a good record on the right to life issue and it can cut through some of the misrepresentations the Bush campaign has put out on our record.

I defended him (John McCain) in those hearings when some stupid-ass right-wing idiot accused him of being the Manchurian Candidate, that somehow the Vietnamese had brainwashed him. This is the most unbelievably callous, degrading, nonsensical piece of crap I`ve ever heard in my life, coming from some chicken hawk out there, to hurl at somebody who spent as long as he did being tortured and standing up for his country, and caring about it as much as he did. It`s incredible that people would behave like that, absolutely stunning.