John McCain Quotes on Military (10 Quotes)

For us to say that the Iranians can do whatever they want to do and we won't under any circumstances exercise a military option would be for them to have a license to do whatever they want to do,

The U.S. military is a very unique culture. People live very close together under very difficult conditions, ... Late Edition.

That is the last option. Everything else has to be exhausted. But to say under no circumstances would we exercise a military option, that would be crazy.

I've never seen an issue of this importance placed in a military construction bill. A routine piece of legislation has now become a matter of grave importance.

another argument to make sure that our men and women in the military know exactly what the parameters are for what they can and cannot do in regards to prisoners.

We cannot take the military option off the table. But we have to make it very clear (that) it is the last option. There is only one thing worse than the United States exercising a military option, and that is Iran having nuclear weapons.

I've already heard from some military commanders who feel they've been undercut by the vice president of the United States, and there's a lot of justification for their view,

We've got two wars going on one a military one in Iraq, and then we've got a war for public opinion, for the hearts and minds of all the people in the world, ... We've got to make sure that we don't torture people.

The facts as I see them, Mr. Chairman, are clearly that we underestimated the size of the challenge that we would face after the military operations unquote were completed,

The military is in disarray, ... The military is not in the kind of condition we want it to be. They are not prepared for the challenges of the post-Cold War era.