John McCain

I congratulate both Senator Obama and Senator Clinton for the campaigns they've run. They've gotten voters engaged. We will do that, as well.

We don't believe that government has all the answers. We believe that government must respect the rights, property and opportunities of the people to whom we are accountable.

My friends, we are the makers of history, not its victims.

We will offer different ideas based on a better understanding of the challenges we face and the resolve to confront them with confidence in the strength and ideals of free people.

They'll promise to break with the failed politics of the past, but will campaign in ways that seek to minimize their exposure to questions from the press and challenges from voters who ask more from their candidates than an empty promise…

They will appeal to our dreams of a better future for ourselves and our families and our country. But they take from us more of the wealth we have earned to build those dreams, and assure us that government is better able than we are to…

Now, my friends, comes the hard part, and for America; the much bigger decision. We don't yet know for certain who will have the honor of being the Democratic Party's nominee for president. But we know where either of their candidates will…

I disagree with the Bush administration in not being more active in addressing the issue of climate change, whether it be through cap and trade, through tax incentives for R&D for green technologies and many other measures that I think…

I really don't know much about economics.

Many of you have disagreed strongly with some positions I have taken in recent years. I understand that. I might not agree with it, but I respect it for the principled position it is.

I disagree with the Bush administration in not being more active in addressing the issue of climate change, whether it be through cap and trade, through tax incentives for R&D for green technologies and many other measures I think need to…

But I do hope that, at some point, we would just calm down a little bit and see if there's areas that we can agree on for the good of the party and for the good of the country.

Our message will be that we all share common principles, common conservative principles, and we should coalesce around those issues.

We will unite the party behind our conservative principles and move forward and win the general election in November.

I'm trying to be very careful about -- I have seen more than one election go against what the polls show before.

I believe we have every good shot at carrying the state of Massachusetts tomorrow and winning this state and sweeping the East.

I will preserve my proud conservative Republican credentials, but I will reach across the aisle to the Democrats and work together for the good of this country.

If I have to follow him to the gates of hell, I will get Osama bin Laden, and I will bring him to justice.

John McCain has to win -- John McCain has to win pretty decisively in the northeast, in those winner-take-all states in New York and New Jersey and Connecticut, 183 delegates.

I am confident I can unite and will unite and am uniting this party.

From the state of California...

I worry a great deal about the NATO alliance evolving into a two-tiered alliance, in which you have some allies willing to fight and die to protect people's security, and others who are not.

Certain Allies bear a disproportionate share of the fighting and the dying and others opt only for less dangerous or limited missions.

I think that for the rest of the 21st century it's going to be the challenge of radical Islamic extremism.

I'm doing fine with them because their major concern is the transcendental threat of radical Islamic extremism and how to keep this nation safe.