John McCain

In other words, you have done nothing.

The Navajo Nation is very fortunate to have your leadership in this very difficult time.

That is almost classic. Here we are with a disaster of incredible proportions and you do not think it is best to be determined whether somebody is responsible for a decision that caused this kind of an incredible disaster and could impact…

I can assure my colleagues that the Navajo are suffering deeply and dearly because of this spill.

I think it is disrespectful to the nation-to-nation relationship that is the foundation of our Nation.

We will stay with them all the way until they are gone. It is a total loss for them.

I thank him for his leadership, I thank him for his rapid response to the people of the Navajo Nation.

I wasn't there. I was tied up at the time.

At the end of the day, if we detect something untoward, do we have the political will to do something about it?

In the view of at least this Senator and others, they will increase their terrorist activities--more refugees, more killing, more expansionist into other countries in the region.

I urge Congress to make the right choice, and to support this deal.

This may be, in some respects, the most important vote that any Senator, no matter how long we've been in the United States Senate, will take.

The sensible thing for Iran to do, frankly, would be to implement the deal anyway. I don't think Iran would do the sensible thing.

We're very good at that.

This is a country that has consistently cheated. It's not Brazil. So, to just dismiss it in that way, I think, is, frankly, pure sophistry.

There is another path open to Congress. Work with the President to strengthen America's position in the Middle East.

Successful implementation of the nuclear deal will require strong, self confident and determined American leadership.

I do, however, firmly believe that the advantages of this deal strongly outweigh the disadvantages, and urge Members of Congress to support it.

This agreement will not only strengthen Iran's malign activities in the region, it will also further Iran's emergence as a dominant military power in the Middle East.

I also fear a vote of disapproval would weaken the effectiveness and credibility of the United States in the Middle East and around the world.

I reject all of those propositions.

In politics, the belief that certain facts are unalterable or certain trends are irresistible commonly reflects a lack of desire or a lack of interest to change or resist them.

This agreement meets that standard because it will put the imprimatur of the international community and the United States on an industrial-scale enrichment program.

The issue before the Congress is not whether the agreement is good or bad, but whether... the United States would be better or worse off with or without it.

We are abandoning the policy of prohibiting the spread of enrichment technology even to friendly democratic governments.