John McCain

Glory belongs to the act of being constant to something greater than yourself, to a cause, to your principles, to the people on whom you rely and who rely on you

Stop listening to the bombastic loudmouths on the radio and television and the Internet. To hell with them. They don’t want anything done for the public good. Our incapacity is their livelihood

Our great power does not mean we can do whatever we want whenever we want, nor should we assume we have all the wisdom and knowledge necessary to succeed.

If you want to preserve – I’m very serious now – if you want to preserve democracy as we know it, you have to have a free and many times adversarial press. And without it, I am afraid that we would lose so much of our individual liberties over time. That’s how dictators get started.

Our shared values define us more than our differences. And acknowledging those shared values can see us through our challenges today if we have the wisdom to trust in them again.

I have watched men suffer the anguish of imprisonment, defy appalling human cruelty… break for a moment, then recover inhuman strength to defy their enemies once more.

I don’t necessarily agree with everything I say.

Hard knocks have a place and value, but hard thinking goes farther in less time.

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.

An artist is always alone if he is an artist. What the artist needs is loneliness.

Everybody should have the opportunity to do and be everything they can be.

I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing.

It is easier to get into something than to get out of it.

The quickest way to become troubled is to be concerned with what people say about your work.

Yesterday’s just a memory, tomorrow is never what it’s supposed to be.

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

By a museum, I assume you mean an institution dedicated to the events of Sept. 11 and the aftermath. If that is done with sensitivity, I think it would be most appropriate.

Grief never mended no broken bones.

Are people more violently opposed to fur rather than leather because its much easier to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs?

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

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