John McCain

In a speech riddled with unrealistic, wishful thinking, President Obama told the Nation last night that the shadow of crisis has passed.

ISIS is not something which drone strikes or F-16 strikes is going to contain because the Islamic State, let us face it, it is a state

It has been 3 years. It is 200,000 dead.

The President of the United States would present an AUMF to the Congress and to this committee, and we could work together on it

I want to know why we have not helped them for the last 3 or 4 years. They are fighting for freedom.

We are seeing the incrementalism that I saw in the Vietnam war

This is really kind of a charade we are going through because the Congress of the United States is not going to act in the next couple of days

My answer is to give them the weapons they need, which they do not have.

It produced little useful intelligence to help us track down the perpetrators of 9/11 or prevent new attacks and atrocities.

The rules as they are today only serve to benefit sports leagues and their member teams at the expense of the hard-working fans

Should the League fail to act, we should do everything we can to stand up for consumers by advancing the FANS Act and other initiatives.

There is something wrong with a situation in which the NFL can say to all of those fans who have made the League what it is today, 'you had better purchase tickets or else.'

I look forward to a lively debate and Senator McCain and I are open and committed to working with all of the stakeholders.

These public benefits carry with them a responsibility back to the public an obligation to treat their loyal fans with fairness.

If BP were a bank, what would be the impact on that bank of that oil spill?

I think I have asked my question, Mr. Chairman, but Ms. Omarova raised this: Why would Goldman Sachs want to get in the warehouse business?

They should not be allowed to be too big to fail.

After the terrible financial collapse of 2008, one of the commitments we all made...was that none of these institutions would ever again be too big to fail.

Because you are not taking the risk.

Mr. Chairman, could I interrupt a second?

These financial institutions have driven up costs for end users of materials like aluminum and ultimately hurt ordinary consumers.

Over 6 years after the financial crisis, these banks still think they are too big to fail.

I think history shows that when one individual or company or corporation owns an overwhelming amount of whatever that is, that it does not leave it open to competition or to prevent manipulation.

I am not sure that is a good thing--that one corporation, be it maybe through a subsidiary, controls somewhere between half and four-fifths of the copper that is on the leading metal exchange.

What is the point, I guess?