John McCain Quotes About Country

Quotes about: Country

• The political tactics of division and slander are not our values. They are corrupting influences on religion and politics, and those who practice them in the name of religion or in the name of the Republican Party or in the name of America shame our faith, our party and our country.

  John McCain

  Country, Party, Practice

  "Sen. John McCain Attacks Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, Republican Establishment as Harming GOP Ideals". transcripts.cnn.com. February 28, 2000.

• I've been an imperfect servant of my country for many years. But I have been her servant first, last and always. And I've never lived a day, in good times or bad, that I didn't thank God for the privilege.

  John McCain

  Country, Years, Thank God

  Republican Party Presidential Nomination Acceptance, delivered 4 September 2008, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota

• I'm not running for president because I think I'm blessed with such personal greatness that history has anointed me to save our country in its hour of need. My country saved me. My country saved me, and I cannot forget it. And I will fight for her for as long as I draw breath, so help me God.

  John McCain

  Running, Country, Blessed

  Republican Party Presidential Nomination Acceptance, delivered 4 September 2008, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota

• Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country.

  John McCain

  Country, Russia, Gas Stations

• In prison, I fell in love with my country. I had loved her before then, but like most young people, my affection was little more than a simple appreciation for the comforts and privileges most Americans enjoyed and took for granted. It wasn't until I had lost America for a time that I realized how much I loved her.

  John McCain

  Country, Appreciation, Simple

• I campaigned in 2012 all over this country for months: 'Repeal and replace Obamacare.' That was not the mandate of the voters. If they wanted to repeal Obamacare, the 2012 election would have been probably significantly different.

  John McCain

  Country, Obamacare, Different

• We can't go on forever with 11 million people living in this country in the shadows in an illegal status. We cannot forever have children who were born here - who were brought here by their parents when they were small children to live in the shadows, as well... What's changed, honestly, is that there is a new appreciation on both sides of the aisle, maybe more importantly on the Republican side, that we need to enact a comprehensive immigration reform bill.

  John McCain

  Country, Appreciation, Children

  "'This Week' Transcript: Sen. John McCain and Sen. Robert Menendez". "This week" with Martha Raddatz, abcnews.go.com. January 27, 2013.

• We want to work with the Russians. But we also have every right to expect the Russians to behave in a fashion and keeping with a - with a - with a country who respects international boundaries and the norms of international behavior.

  John McCain

  Country, Fashion, Boundaries

  Source: www.nytimes.com

• Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country. It's kleptocracy, it's corruption, it's a nation that's really only dependent upon oil and gas for their economy.

  John McCain

  Country, Money, Reality

  "Kerry, Lavrov agree to work on 'constitutional reform' in Ukraine". "The World Today", www.abc.net.au. March 17, 2014.

• I think that it has to be a very humane approach to this issue, and we have to come up with solutions to it. But we also have to do something about the drugs that are coming across our southern border that are killing our kids... I think there are some people who want to leave this country and return to the country they came from, but obviously it requires a broader solution that that, and we all know that.

  John McCain

  Country, Kids, Thinking

  John McCain Slams Mitt Romney’s ‘Self-Deportation,’ Advocates ‘Humane Approach’ To Immigration" by Mollie Reilly, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 6, 2012.

• I have campaigned for reform efforts all over the country, ... What happens in California has significant effect in states like mine that are nearby. It's just a reality.

  John McCain

  Country, Reality, California

• Our country doesn't depend on the heroism of every citizen. But all of us should be worthy of the sacrifices made on our behalf.

  John McCain

  Country, Patriotic, Sacrifice

  Liberty University Commencement Address, delivered 13 May 2006

• Women need the education and training, particularly since more and more women are heads of their households, as much or more than anybody else...And it's hard for them to leave their families when they don't have somebody to take care of them....It's a vicious cycle that's affecting women, particularly in a part of the country like this, where mining is the mainstay; traditionally, women have not gone into that line of work, to say the least.

  John McCain

  Country, Training, Needs

• Each Middle East country has their own unique kinds of challenges; but the fundamentals, the desire for democracy and freely elected governments is a common thread throughout.

  John McCain

  Country, Unique, Government

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• It is illegal for children to purchase tobacco in every state in the country. And in every state ... tobacco companies have invested enormous sums of money and time to encourage widespread lawbreaking.

  John McCain

  Country, Children, States

• I take a backseat to no one in my affection, respect and devotion to veterans. And I will not accept from Senator Obama, who did not feel it was his responsibility to serve our country in uniform, any lectures on my regard for those who did.

  John McCain

  Country, Responsibility, Uniforms

  "Obama, McCain Tussle Over Veterans Issues". Statement to the Press, voices.washingtonpost.com. May 22, 2008.

• I am confident, with the leadership and the backing of the American people, President Obama will turn this country around.

  John McCain

  Country, People, President

  "Celebrity Endorsements: What Happens When Reality TV And Politics Collide". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. January 9, 2012.

• There is no moral equivalent between that butcher and thug and KGB colonel Vladimir Putin and the United States of America, the country that Ronald Reagan used to call a shining city on a hill.

  John McCain

  Country, Thug, Cities

  Source: www.npr.org

• In our blessed and mostly peaceful society we're not as familiar with courage as we once were. We ascribe the virtue to all manner of endeavors that only really require skill, fortitude and a little daring, the qualities Pat Tillman showed on the football field. Pat's best service to his country was to remind us all what courage really looks like, and that the purpose of all good courage is love.

  John McCain

  Football, Country, Blessed

• The United States of American business pays the second-highest business taxes in the world, 35 percent. Ireland pays 11 percent. Now, if you're a business person, and you can locate any place in the world, then, obviously, if you go to the country where it's 11 percent tax versus 35 percent, you're going to be able to create jobs, increase your business, make more investment, et cetera. I want to cut that business tax. I want to cut it so that businesses will remain in the United States of America and create jobs.

  John McCain

  Country, Cutting, World

  Source: www.nytimes.com

• What is good for my country is good for my party, Should my party abandon this principle, the American people will abandon us.

  John McCain

  Country, Party, People

• I am proud to do so for I know that by supporting George W. Bush, I serve my country well.

  John McCain

  Country, Proud, Wells

  "John McCain's speech to the Republican party convention". www.theguardian.com. July 31, 2000.

• My reading of the threat from Iran is that if Iran acquires nuclear weapons, it is an existential threat to the State of Israel and to other countries in the region because the other countries in the region will feel compelling requirement to acquire nuclear weapons as well. Now we cannot a second Holocaust.

  John McCain

  Country, Reading, Holocaust

  Source: www.nytimes.com

• Many of the countries outpacing the United States in the deployment of high speed Internet services, including Canada, Japan and South Korea, have successfully combined municipal systems with privately deployed networks to wire their countries, .. As a country, we cannot afford to cut off any successful strategy if we want to remain internationally competitive.

  John McCain

  Country, Cutting, Successful

• I think we also ought to prepare the American public, by way of informing them, that Saddam Hussein has these weapons, continues to attempt to improve their capability, and would not be reluctant to export them to other countries. So he presents a clear and present danger.

  John McCain

  Country, Thinking, Hussein

  "Face The Nation" with Bob Schieffer, www.cbsnews.com. June 17, 2002.

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