John McCain actually said...

"I think that Sarah Palin is obviously one of them. We'll start through the process in about a year or so of selecting our nominee but I think she's a very strong force in the Republican Party."

"One of the things about campaigns that lose, there's always mistakes made. And the campaign that wins is always the perfect campaign. I'm proud of the campaign we ran. I'm proud of Sarah Palin and we ..."

"The environmental community has more influence here than those 40,000 families who have lost their jobs."

"So really what we're doing is maybe not endangering the existence of human beings, but certainly we are endangering their way of life that, as I understand, is multigenerational."