John McCain

Our shared values define us more than our differences. And acknowledging those shared values can see us through our challenges today if we have the wisdom to trust in them again.

But we’re at a place in our political history when passing legislation through the House with bipartisan support is considered by some folks a greater evil than the problem it’s intended to solve.

We have to fight. We have to fight against propaganda and crackpot conspiracy theories. We have to fight isolationism, protectionism, and nativism. We have to defeat those who would worsen our divisions. We have to remind our sons and daughters that we became the most powerful nation on Earth by tearing down walls, not building them.

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

War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.

America’s greatest strength has always been its hopeful vision of human progress.

Armies are not only for offensives.

My mission is to lead the country out of a bad situation of corruption, depression and slavery. After I rid the country of these vices, I will then organize and supervise a general election of a genuinely democratic civilian government.

Democracy don’t rule the world, you better get that in your head; this world is ruled by violence, but I guess that’s better left unsaid.

You’re thinking of Eurpoe as Germany and France. I don’t. I think that’s old Europe.

It is my view that we cannot conduct foreign policy at the extremes.

This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.

Since the white working class cannot be mobilized to support the class enemy on the basis of their actual programs, the ‘radical insurgency’ called ‘the Republican Party’ appeals to its constituency on what are called ‘social-cultural issues’: religion, fear, racism, nationalism.

Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.

The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. … If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism.

…corporations are fundamentally illegitimate, …they don’t have to exist at all in their modern form. Just as other oppressive institutions – slavery, say, or royalty – have been changed or eliminated, so corporate power can be changed of eliminated.

The ‘corporatization of America’ during the past century [has been] an attack on democracy.

I don’t regret anything. I did everything absolutely correctly.

Truth is treason in the empire of lies.

I’ve never tried to impose pressure on the authority of the government through my business achievements. I cannot tell you what the others were doing.

But facts and logic matter little. The Democrats are bent on revenge for their 2016 failure, having run such a rotten campaign that what looked like a ‘sure thing’ collapsed. Evidently, Trump’s severe assault against the common good is a lesser matter, at least to the party elite.