Quote

Being chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee is like being a mosquito in a nudist colony.

John McCain

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

John McCain
Age: 81 †
Born: 1936
Born: August 29
Died: 2018
Died: August 25
Aircraft Pilot
Author
Autobiographer
Fighter Pilot
Naval Officer
Politician
Screenwriter
Statesperson
Television Presenter
John Sidney McCain III
John S. McCain
III
Committee
Chairman
Committees
Commerce
Nudist
Senate
Nudists
Like
Mosquito
Mosquitoes
Colony

More quotes by John McCain

Image
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.
John McCain
Image
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
Image
Gary Bauer has done great things, ... I want to promise you again, you may agree with me, you may disagree with me, but I will do great things.
John McCain
Image
We send cruise missiles and then we think everything's all right or we try to bring them to trial. My friends, this time they've gone too far. This time we're serious. This time we won't quit until they are gone, completely gone from the face of the earth
John McCain
Image
The problem is that most members of Congress don’t pay attention to what’s going on.
John McCain
Image
Both candidates in this election [2004] pledge to end this war and bring our troops home. The great difference - the great difference is that I intend to win it first.
John McCain
Image
We ought to pay down the national debt, ... The American people are tired of people who make promises about cutting taxes that they cannot keep.
John McCain
Image
War is awful. Nothing, not the valor with which it is fought nor the nobility of the cause it serves, can glorify war. War is wretched beyond description and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality. Whatever is won in war, it is loss the veteran remembers.
John McCain
Image
We have a lot of work to do and I‘m afraid that it‘s a very hard struggle, particularly given the situation on the Iraq/Pakistan border.
John McCain
Image
Excessive administration secrecy... feeds conspiracy theories and reduces the public's confidence in government.
John McCain
Image
Glory belongs to the act of being constant to something greater than yourself, to a cause, to your principles, to the people on whom you rely and who rely on you in return.
John McCain
Image
I don't doubt the sincerity of my Democratic friends. And they should not doubt ours.
John McCain
Image
Democrats proposing failure in Iraq by withdrawing.
John McCain
Image
You hear it every four years, ... Scare the seniors, scare the seniors.
John McCain
Image
We are taught to understand, correctly, that courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity for action despite our fears.
John McCain
Image
War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.
John McCain
Image
Vladimir Putin is a war criminal.
John McCain
Image
I don't think we are comforted by the fact that we were told there would never be a case of Ebola in the United States and obviously that's not correct.
John McCain
Image
Presidential ambition is a disease that can only be cured by embalming fluid.
John McCain
Image
I'm not President Bush
John McCain