John McCain

I don't know how you respond to something that is such a false depiction of what actually happened.

I had the courage and the judgment to say that I would rather lose a political campaign than lose a war. It seems to me that Senator Obama would rather lose a war in order to win a political campaign.

Obama would rather win the election than win in Iraq.

It has to be based on conditions on the ground. But whenever you win wars, and we are winning, then we will be able to come home.

It doesn't in the slightest undercut the fact that it's based on conditions on the ground.

The Republican candidate for president, John McCain has spent a lifetime challenging convention and pulling off the improbable.

The first thing we need to do is make the Bush tax cuts permanent.

Neither party should be defined by pandering to the outer reaches of American politics and the agents of intolerance, whether they be Louis Farrakhan or Al Sharpton on the left, or Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell on the right.

I will always tell you the truth, no matter what.

I'm fully satisfied that my conduct at all times was conducted in keeping with the standards of my office.

And this hearing will be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you God.

I view it as a failure because I think that I should have done better.

Please, let me finish.

To somehow disconnect it from Afghanistan shows again incredible naivete.

He has been the chairman of the committee of the subcommittee that oversights NATO operations. Afghanistan, we obviously know, about NATO involvement. He's never had a hearing.

It somehow disconnected from Afghanistan shows again incredible naivete.

To be at political rallies, then it's a political event.

He has been chairman of the committee, of the subcommittee that oversights NATO operations. Afghanistan, we obviously know about NATO involvement. He's never had a hearing. He's never had a hearing.

I don't know enough about it to give you a informed answer.

Whether or not I get your support, I need your goodwill and counsel.

Senator Obama will tell you we can't win in Afghanistan without losing in Iraq. In fact, he has it exactly backwards. It is precisely the success of the surge in Iraq that shows us the way to succeed in Afghanistan.

Phil Gramm does not speak for me. I speak for me.

It was also was a very strategic move because that appearance there was a message that showed how he was separate from George Bush.

Whether or not I win your support, I need your goodwill and counsel.

I think it was. And I think he drew a line in the sand where he said, here's an issue that we can all agree on, that we have common ground on, and quite frankly, it's an issue in the black community, when it comes to school choice, that…