John McCain Quotes About Today

Quotes about: Today

• Let's move forward to try to address the most egregious and outrageous corrupting aspect of campaigns in America today and that is the incredible inundation of soft money and its pernicious effects.

  John McCain

  Moving, America, Trying

  "Senate to take up softened campaign finance reform" by Jonathan Karl, www.cnn.com. October 12, 1999.

• I can tell you that I think America is safer today than it was on 9/11. But that doesn't mean that we don't have a long way to go.

  John McCain

  Mean, Thinking, Long

  Source: www.nytimes.com

• Some urge we do nothing because we can't be certain how bad the (climate) problem might become or they presume the worst effects are most likely to occur in our grandchildren's lifetime. I'm a proud conservative, and I reject that kind of live-for-today, 'me generation,' attitude. It is unworthy of us and incompatible with our reputation as visionaries and problem solvers. Americans have never feared change. We make change work for us.

  John McCain

  Attitude, Grandchildren, Live For Today

• For decades we have been living lives of abundance, with little regard for our natural resources or global health. But we are now facing hard choices in our energy policy. Future generations - my children and grandchildren, along with yours - will have to live with the decisions we make today. And so it is time for us to make some tough and - hopefully - smart choices regarding our energy use and production before it is too late.

  John McCain

  Children, Smart, Live Life

• 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

  Cutting, Support, Population

  "Senators Debate Alternatives to Full Tax Cut". www.foxnews.com. March 18, 2003.

• 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.

• America has the strongest, best-trained, best-led military force in the world, and we have failed them. Our military today is struggling in virtually every category that measures preparedness.

  John McCain

  Military, Struggle, America

• There are neighborhoods in Baghdad where you and I could walk through those neighborhoods today.

  John McCain

  Baghdad, Today, Neighborhood

  "Media report McCain "mocking" Obama for laying out Iraq, Afghanistan policy before visiting, but McCain has done the same". www.mediamatters.org. July 17, 2008.

• Today more people lose their seats in the Politburo in Havana than in the Congress of America, ... We need to have competitive races for the Legislature. ... We have to have a clash of ideas.

  John McCain

  Race, Ideas, America

• There is no confidence in the Arab world today in the United States of America.

  John McCain

  America, United States, World

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

• We've got to start also holding people accountable, and we've got to reward people who succeed. But somehow in Washington today - and I'm afraid on Wall Street - greed is rewarded, excess is rewarded, and corruption - or certainly failure to carry out our responsibility is rewarded.

  John McCain

  Wall, Responsibility, People

  Source: www.nytimes.com

• Barbara Boxer is the most bitterly partisan, most anti-defense senator in the United States Senate today. I know that because I've had the unpleasant experience of having to serve with her.

  John McCain

  United States, Defense, Boxers

  "Hardball with Chris Matthews", www.nbcnews.com. October 18, 2010.

• 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

  America, Today, Fixed

  McCain Campaign's Prepared Speech for Denver Town Hall Meeting with Question and Answer Session, www.washingtonpost.com. July 7, 2008.

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