John Quotes

Don't let anyone tell you otherwise - not our political opponents, and certainly not a disingenuous filmmaker, who would have us believe.

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

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

I am a computer illiterate that has to rely on my wife for all of the assistance I can get.

I'm going to be honest: I know a lot less about economics than I do about military and foreign policy issues. I still need to be educated.

If money is free speech, the big interests are sitting in front with megaphones and the average citizens are sitting in the back.

My preference would be to remain in the Senate, ... But you can't say I would refuse to serve in one of those (Cabinet) capacities. It's not the same as vice president.

Do you know why Chelsea Clinton is so ugly? Because Janet Reno is her father.

Everybody says that they're against the special interests. I'm the only one the special interests don't give any money to.

I can only express satisfaction that the Dear Leader is joining the likes of Gaddafi, Bin Laden, Hitler, and Stalin in a warm corner of hell.

The US does not involve itself in what is happening in the world's largest democracy, nor does it intend to do so.

You may have noticed that Senator Obama’s supporters have been saying some pretty nasty things about Western Pennsylvania lately. And you know, I couldn’t agree with them more.

As you know, there are al Qaeda operatives that are taken back into Iran, given training as leaders, and they’re moving back into Iraq.

As part of Social Security reform, I believe that private savings accounts are a part of it - along the lines that President Bush proposed.

Anybody who believes the surge has not succeeded, militarily, politically and in most other ways, frankly, does not know the facts on the ground.

We should be able to deliver bottled hot water to dehydrated babies.

I don’t e-mail, I’ve never felt the particular need to e-mail.

The day that the leadership of the military comes to me and says, "Senator, we ought to change the policy," then I think we ought to consider seriously changing it.

Stategy in Iraq- defeat al-Qaeda; limit Iran's influence.

I am not President Bush.

I think I am becoming incapable of being too surprised. But it just makes me sad and sick.

It's pretty clear we have enough Guard people in the United States, but are they capable of handling our oversees commitments as well? We need to figure out how that impacts our ability in Iraq.

Katrina did not declare a truce on Iraq.

The last thing members of the committee want to do is pass legislation.

I asked that I not be considered for vice president of the United States.

I would like to mention that a couple days ago Senator Obama was out in Ohio and he had an encounter with a guy who's a plumber, his name is Joe Wurzelbacher.

I observed a thousand acts of courage, compassion and love [as a POW] and I will always treasure that memory above all others.

Democrats proposing failure in Iraq by withdrawing.

Reducing military presence has never in history won a war.

Excessive administration secrecy... feeds conspiracy theories and reduces the public's confidence in government.

I have said for a long time that I thought the president would be best served if the attorney general resigned so I think it's the right thing to do.

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

In the view of everyone, I am a viable candidate and I should be on the ballot.

As almost anyone with war experience knows, you're never supposed to show the enemy what you won't do to win.

Iraq is now the central front in the war against al-Qaeda.

In the 21st century nations don't invade other nations.

I think the American people should know there's already strong influences toward another deployment of American troops in an open-ended commitment.

Americans want to win; bin Laden thinks he's winning now.

Arizona may be the only state in America where mothers don't tell their children that someday, they can grow up and be president of the United States.

So when someone, a veteran stands up and say, "Here are the facts on the VA." He [Donald Trump] says, "No, your facts are wrong." Turns out her facts are right and his facts are wrong.

Free trade with Colombia is something that's a no-brainer.

The point to me is not what Donald Trump is saying because we keep reacting to just things he says in his tweets. What he is doing is important.

It's a matter of fact that Senator Obama has spent more money on negative ads than any political campaign in history.

It's very clear that Vladimir Putin has decided that he will eliminate his opponents and anyone who stands up for democracy and freedom. And he does so with relative impunity.

There is no moral equivalent between that butcher and thug and KGB colonel Vladimir Putin and the United States of America, the country that Ronald Reagan used to call a shining city on a hill.

I think that decisions should rest in the hands of the states. I'm a federalist.

There's a misnomer that Hillary Clinton is as hawkish as I am, basically.

Cindy and I are adoptive parents. We know what a treasure and joy it is to have an adopted child in our lives.

What was fascinating to me, is that she [Hillary Clinton] still cannot answer eloquently, answers about her e-mails, she still can't explains to me why she's not a third term of [Barack] Obama.

After all this time and all this, quote, "experience," how is she [Hillary Clinton] not better at this [military]?