John McCain

But such attacks are occurring from a position of growing weakness, not mounting strength, and now is not the time to put our security gains at unnecessary risk.

The United States must leave at least 10,000 troops in Iraq beyond this year to support the Iraqis.

I have deep reservations about both of these looming deadlines.

I hope together we can find some ways based on this report to help make that happen.

Much of the waste identified by the Commission stems from a lack of competition, which, of course, should be the cornerstone of government contracting.

The ultimate waste of money and of the service and sacrifice made by our men and women in uniform would be to walk away and let Iraq and Afghanistan fall back into the hands of dictators and/or Islamist fanatics.

I think that our law enforcement agencies are taking it seriously. I don't think there is a cause for panic or alarm or change in lifestyle, because then they begin to win.

We want to work with the president. We want to be able to go home and say we're going to cut your payroll taxes so that you can hire more people, small businesses.

We know we have to fix Medicare. We know that there are other areas that we could agree on.

Yes, I do, and I'd be, again, very curious how we're going to pay for it. The president said he's going to send over a detailed plan, that's fine.

A lot of Americans believe that those of us here in Washington are not capable of making or taking the difficult steps that are necessary.

Most of us here in Washington are united in our desire to find a solution to our Nation's fiscal problems.

In short, it was a deal, not a solution, and not a very good deal as far as I am concerned.

This bill is extraordinarily important to my state in terms of job creation, public safety and wildfire prevention.

This stuff is not easy, and that is why I suppose we find ourselves here as we sort of hit the three-quarters mark in the fiscal year with the Postal Service on the ropes.

I personally like the idea of 6-day-a-week service and think it can be helpful as part of their business model.

In adversity lies opportunity.

I use Senator McCain's words, talk about a waste of taxpayers' expense in a recession we want to consider more regulation on our industry?

Senator McCain picked out one FBI case, one out of a $26 billion industry. That is a pretty damn good record.

Unfortunately, Senator McCain left here kind of in a huff, which is getting to be predictable, and quite frankly, we are getting tired of it.

I think it is really remarkable it is going to be 13 months before you could reach a conclusion whether there should be a legislative fix or not.

That is really remarkable.

Is there a need for a legislative addressing of the impact of the CRIT decision?

There is a problem as a result of the CRIT decision.

The Republican House that failed to raise the debt ceiling would somehow escape all the blame. Then Democrats would have no choice but to pass a balanced budget amendment and reform entitlements and the Tea Party Hobbits could return to…