John McCain Quotes on Agreements (7 Quotes)


    I think it's going to be one of the biggest food fights on the floor of the Senate you've ever seen, unless we can come to some agreement ahead of time, because everybody's got their program,

    We are in agreement on more issues than we are in disagreement. I look forward to enthusiastically campaigning for Gov. Bush over the next six months.

    I think we're a long way from 'falling apart,' ... We could never be placed in the position where the terms of this agreement were dictated to us by the tobacco companies.

    We're at the end here, and I don't want to do it, but we need an agreement soon. It's not complicated. It's not complicated. All sports fans understand it, ... I suggest you act and you act soon.

    We have reached an agreement to try to avert a crisis in the United States Senate and pull the institution back from a precipice that would have had -- in the view of all 14 of us -- lasting impact, damaging impact on the institution,


    Just by coincidence, Senator Teddy Kennedy and I, in the last couple of days, after several months of negotiations, have reached an agreement for an immigration proposal that we will be putting out next week, ... our proposal is along the lines of make them pay a fine of a couple thousand dollars, make them work for three years, and after three years they can get in the back of the line for a green card and then eventually become citizens.

    There was extreme discomfort on the floor yesterday about the way this thing was headed, ... I believe the prime motivating factor was that we saw that we were not going to be able to carry out our constitutional responsibility unless we carve some kind of bipartisan agreement.


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