Republican Quotes by John McCain

What I don't know is what the unexpected might be.

— John McCain

Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country.

— John McCain

I will not leave the Republican Party, ... The Republican Party is my home.

— John McCain

Unfortunately, Governor Bush is a Pat Robertson Republican who will lose to Al Gore.

— John McCain

We have a lot of work to do. It's a very hard struggle, particularly given the situation on the Iraq-Pakistan border.

— John McCain

I have said many times in the past I don't choose to be vice president, either Republican, Democrat, Libertarian or vegetarian.

— John McCain

We have a lot of work to do and I‘m afraid that it‘s a very hard struggle, particularly given the situation on…

— John McCain

I respect Sarah Palin. I appreciate her and her husband enormously. I think she will continue to play a major role in…

— John McCain

I have said from the beginning that Pat Buchanan left the Republican Party the day he questioned America's involvement in defeating Nazi…

— John McCain

The first thing we have to do is get spending under control in Washington. It's completely out of control. We Republicans came…

— John McCain

Every time there's been an out-of-bounds remark made by a Republican, no matter where they are, I have repudiated them.

— John McCain

Tolerance of dissent is the hallmark of a mature party, and it is well past time for the Republican Party to grow…

— John McCain

I intend to do what I can, working with my congressional colleagues, Republicans and Democrats, to help bring about the changes to…

— John McCain

The political tactics of division and slander are not our values. They are corrupting influences on religion and politics, and those who…

— John McCain

I think where [Donald Trump] loses most hawkish republicans is when he talking about how much he likes [Vladimir] Putin. That should…

— John McCain

I am a Republican. I'm loyal to the party of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. And I believe that my party, in…

— John McCain

[Vladimir] Putin supporting Bashar al-Assad, helping with the Syrian refugee crisis and, I think for any republican, he [Donald Trump] has got…

— John McCain

I will conduct a respectful debate. Now, it will be dispirited -- it will be spirited -- because there are stark differences.…

— John McCain

The tea partiers are a great addition. The tea partiers have invigorated a base that has been dormant for a long period…

— John McCain

This is the free enterprise system. The only place in the world that I can recall where companies never failed was the…

— John McCain

This is the free enterprise system. The only place in the world that I can recall where companies never failed was the…

— John McCain

If you have a large bloc of Americans who believe you're trying to keep their ... fellow Hispanics down and deprive them…

— John McCain

I think that it has to be a very humane approach to this issue, and we have to come up with solutions…

— John McCain

We can't go on forever with 11 million people living in this country in the shadows in an illegal status. We cannot…

— John McCain

You have to listen to people that have chosen the nominee of our Republican Party. I think it would be foolish to…

— John McCain