John McCain actually said...

"This is of course deeply unsettling, but it is also an unprecedented opportunity to support the peoples of the Middle East in shaping a new regional order."

"We face the Iranian regime's desire to develop a nuclear weapons capability and to exploit the current regional instability to expand its hegemonic ambitions."

"I think you correctly and characteristically bluntly identify as our greatest long-term threat in the region."

"The historic changes now reshaping the broader Middle East are a direct repudiation of al Qaeda and its terrorist allies."