I didn't decide to run for president to start a national crusade for the political reforms I believed in, or to run a campaign as if it were some grand act of patriotism. In truth, I wanted to be president because it had become my ambition to be president.
John McCainWe should be I hope finally realizing what Vladimir Putin is. He's an old colonel, KGB, apparatchik, and he dreams of the restoration of the Russian empire.
John McCainArizona may be the only state in America where mothers don't tell their children that someday, they can grow up and be president of the United States.
John McCainWhat evidence do we have that states are incapable of further exercising an authority they have exercised successfully for over 200 years?
John McCain