John McCain Quotes About Fighting

Quotes about: Fighting

• Nothing in life is more liberating than to fight for a cause larger than yourself, something that encompasses you but is not defined by your existence alone.

  John McCain

  Fighting, Causes, Life Is

  John McCain, Mark Salter (2000). “Faith of My Fathers: A Family Memoir”, p.373, Random House

• 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

• We have many advantages in the fight against global warming, but time is not one of them. Instead of idly debating the precise extent of global warming, or the precise timeline of global warming, we need to deal with the central facts of rising temperatures, rising waters, and all the endless troubles that global warming will bring. We stand warned by serious and credible scientists across the world that time is short and the dangers are great. The most relevant question now is whether our own government is equal to the challenge.

  John McCain

  Fighting, Government, Water

  John McCain Climate Change Speech in Portland, Oregon, thinkprogress.org. May 12, 2008.

• My patriotism and my conscience required me to support it and to engage in the debate over whether and how to fight it.

  John McCain

  Patriotic, Fighting, Support

  Liberty University Commencement Address, delivered 13 May 2006

• Our armed forces will fight for peace in Iraq, a peace built on more secure foundations than are found today in the Middle East. Even more important, they will fight for two human conditions of even greater value than peace: liberty and justice.

  John McCain

  Fighting, Two, Iraq

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  John McCain

  Home, Fighting, Years

  Comedy sketch on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien", 2000.

• If you talk to these young men and women who are fighting, they'll tell you that they think it's a worthwhile cause, and they're fighting for freedom, and they-well, they-all I'm saying-the overwhelming majority of them do.

  John McCain

  Fighting, Men, Thinking

  "Bill Moyers talks with Jon Stewart". "Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. April 27, 2007.

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