John McCain

Our great power does not mean we can do whatever we want whenever we want, nor should we assume we have all the wisdom and knowledge necessary to succeed.

No just cause is futile, even if it’s lost, if it helps make the future better than the past.

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.

Americans Never Quit. We never surrender. We never hide from history. We Make History.

I don’t mind a good fight. For reasons known only to God, I’ve had quite a few tough ones in my life. But I learned an important lesson along the way: In the end, it matters less that you can fight. What you fight for is the real test.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity to act despite our fears.

Obviously, I’m always thinking about it. A successor, in the ordinary sense of the word – no, the Russian people, the voters will decide who that will be. But of course I think that we should raise a new, young generation of leaders, responsible people who will be able to take on the responsibility of Russia.

Secretary Powell and I agree on every single issue that has ever been before this administration except for those instances where Colin’s still learning.

The world will not accept dictatorship or domination.

Like most technology, the internet has mixed effects. It’s a neutral instrument.

An ‘extremely credible source’ has called my office and told me that Barack Obama’s birth certificate is a fraud

Nowadays wars are not declared. They simply start.

We can make a rough distinction between the managerial class and the rest. The managers take part in decision-making in the state, the private economy, and the doctrinal institutions. The rest are to cede authority to state and private elites, to accept what they are told…

Instead of citizens, it produces consumers. Instead of communities, it produces shopping malls. The net result is an atomized society of disengaged individuals who feel demoralized and socially powerless.

A lot of times, I can turn and pass without even looking.- Joseph Stalin

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.

Artillery is the god of war.

[Marx’s] picture was, as I understand it, that when working people liberate themselves, and can make their own decisions, they will determine what kind of society it will be. He is not going to dictate it to them. I think that’s a pretty wise stand frankly.

I think Comey was the ringleader of this whole den of thieves. It’s a den of thieves.

As yet we do not plan to withdraw these forces. But I direct your attention to the fact that I did not call these bases by any other name – I called them bases. We are not building long-term military structures there and if we need to, we could withdraw our military personnel very quickly, without incurring any financial losses.

Our soldiers are there (in Syria) in order to secure Russia’s interests in this critically important part of the world, which is so near to us. And they will stay there, for as long as it is in Russia’s interest for them to do so.