John McCain Quotes on Time (24 Quotes)

close, but whether we'll actually achieve it or not is not clear at this time.

Giving peace a chance only gives Saddam Hussein more time to prepare for war on his terms, at a time of his choosing, in pursuit of ambitions that will only grow as his power to achieve them grows,

I spent several years in a North Vietnamese prison camp, in the dark, fed with scraps. Do you think I want to do that all over again as vice president of the United States ... The vice president has two duties One is to break a tie in case of a tie vote in the United States Senate .. the other is to inquire daily as to the health of the president. Neither one of those are very challenging as compared with living a good part of time in the state of Arizona.

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,

There comes a time when our nation's leader can no longer rely on briefing books and talking points, when the experts and the advisers have all weighed in, when the sum total of one's life becomes the foundation from which he or she makes the decisions th

No, I don't think it is, at least not any time soon given the tenor of politics in America and the courts in America.

will not be adopted by Congress this year, nor next year, nor any time soon until a substantial majority of Americans are persuaded that such a consequential action is as vitally important and necessary as the proponents feel it is today.

It's the United States' war. We're the ones that started it. It's our responsibility to finish it, ... We need more troops. We need more money. We need it quickly, and time is not on our side.

You were lucky this time.

I believe that the stealth fighter should have been used the first time. They are much more capable as far as the kind of weaponry that they can deliver, which has far more penetrating capability.

(The museum) means a time of remembrance of those who have been deprived of their freedom all throughout our nation's history, ... It is also a celebration of the courage and the dignity and the honor that has been associated with the enormous sacrifices made.

How would I do it any different I don't know, but I worry that, over time, with so many warnings, with so much frequency, Americans will begin not to take them seriously,

I don't know what information the president had at the time and what he didn't have, ... So, I think all of that's going to be reviewed, and I'm sure that will be part of this commission.

The time we're going to pop a cork will be the day that the president of the United States signs this bill and we're all together in the Rose Garden at the time of his signature -- that's when we will celebrate and not before,

If necessary, there will be a third time and a fourth time and a tenth time, until we win.

This time we're serious.

We need to make sure that we fix it this time, because what if that had been an act of terrorism ... This clearly exposes us to vulnerabilities if there was an act of terror. So if there's any upside to this terrible tragedy, maybe it'll motivate us to fix the problem.

The tea partiers are a great addition. The tea partiers have invigorated a base that has been dormant for a long period of time. We're going to have a broad array of different views in our Republican conference, and I think it might be more interesting than any I've been in in a long time.

Now is the time to put an end to it.

Over time, they'll come around to my point of view.

Comparisons with Vietnam are grossly overdrawn. We were having hundreds of casualties a week in Vietnam. ... It just is not applicable at this time,

I am prepared. I am prepared. I need no on-the-job training. I wasn't a mayor for a short period of time. I wasn't a governor for a short period of time.

My friends, we won a few and lost a few today, and over the next few days, we'll take some time to enjoy our victories and take stock of our losses,

This bill doesn't need a lot of consideration, ... The House has considered it and passed it by large margins in past years. We don't want to take a lot of time away from the (wider Republican) agenda.