but its worth a repost.
http://www.spicyviews.com/quotes/10-john-mccain-quotes/ 1. “Make it a hundred…That would be fine with me.” (to a questioner who asked if he supported President Bush’s vision for keeping U.S troops in Iraq for 50 years)
2. “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.”
3. “Fuck you! I know more about this than anyone else in the room.” (to Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), during a testy exchange about immigration legislation)
4. “Americans are very frustrated, and they have every right to be. We’ve wasted a lot of our most precious treasure, which is American lives.” (on the Iraq war)
5. “I think I’d just commit suicide.” (in October 2006, on the prospects of the Democrats taking back the Senate in the November election)
6. “No, I’m calling you a fucking jerk.” (to fellow Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley, when Grassley asked “Are you calling me stupid?)
7. “Only an asshole would put together a budget like this … I wouldn’t call you an asshole unless you really were an asshole.” (to Budget Committee Chairman and fellow Repulican Sen. Pete Domenici, during a Senate budget hearing)
8. “I would rather have a clean government than one where quote First Amendment rights are being respected, that has become corrupt. If I had my choice, I’d rather have the clean government.”
9. “I said, ‘The nice thing about Alzheimer’s is you get to hide your own Easter eggs.”
10. “Do you know why Chelsea Clinton is so ugly? Because Janet Reno is her father.” (at a 1998 Republican fundraiser)
11. “Thanks for the question, you little jerk.” -(John McCain, after being asked by a high school student if he was too old to be president. For good measure, McCain then threatened to draft him.) (Watch video clip)
12. “Presidential ambition is a disease that can only be cured by embalming fluid.”
13. “I spent several years in a North Vietnamese prison camp, in the dark, fed with scraps. Do you think I want to do that all over again as vice president of the United States?”
14. “The first thing that I would do is call in John Kerry, Bob Kerrey, Joe Biden, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Henry Kissinger, Dick Lugar, Chuck Hagel, and several others and say, ‘We’ve got to get foreign policy, national security issues back on track.’” (When asked the first thing he would do if elected President, 3/00)
15. “Our nation has both an obligation and self-interest in facing head-on the serious environmental, economic and national security threat posed by global warming.”
16. “America has much to gain in terms of jobs and trade by meeting the growing world demand for advanced, environmentally sound technologies.”
17. “We are paying a very heavy price for the mismanagement — that’s the kindest word I can give you — of Donald Rumsfeld, of this war. The price is very, very heavy and I regret it enormously. I think that Donald Rumsfeld will go down in history as one of the worst secretaries of defense in history.”(John McCain
On Iraq War, February 2007)
18. “By the way, I think the fence is least effective. But I’ll build the goddamned fence if they want it.” (2/2007)
19. “I don’t think the governor’s tax cut is too big—it’s just misplaced. Sixty percent of the benefits from his tax cuts go to the wealthiest 10% of Americans—and that’s not the kind of tax relief that Americans need. … Gov. Bush wants to spend the entire surplus on tax cuts. I don’t believe the wealthiest 10% of Americans should get 60% of the tax breaks. I think the lowest 10% should get the breaks. … “I’m not giving tax cuts for the rich.” (Discussion with media, reported in “Bush, McCain Snip Over Tax Cut Plans,” Los Angeles Times, and “GOP Rivals Bicker on Taxes,”Washington Post, Jan. 5, 2000.)
20. “We give the millionaire a $2,000 refund. Gov. Bush gives him $50,000.” (Quoted in “John McCain: How Straight a Shooter?” by Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe, Jan. 27, 2000)
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