Sen. John McCain

McCain:(about his Republican rival Mitt Romney on immigration) And maybe his solution will be to get out his small-varmint gun and drive those Guatemalans off his lawn. I don't know.

McCain: Illegal immigration and our porous borders are problems that we have, to our shame, ignored for too long because it was too hard and politically risky to solve.

McCain: (on not wanting to be Vice President) As far as me and the vice presidency is concerned ... I spent a number of years in a North Vietnamese prison camp in the dark and was fed scraps, and I don't know why I would want to do that all over again.

McCain: Americans are very frustrated, and they have every right to be. We've wasted a lot of our most precious treasure, which is American lives.

McCain: Presidents don't lose wars, political parties don't lose wars, nations lose wars. And when nations lose wars, nations suffer.

McCain: Washington is a Hollywood for ugly people. Hollywood is a Washington for the simpleminded.

McCain: War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.

McCain: Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno.

McCain: (on "The Late Show with David Letterman") last time we were on this program, I'm sure you remember everything very clearly that we say, but you asked me if I would come back on this show if I was going to announce. ... I am announcing that I will be a candidate for president of the United States.

McCain: We are paying a very heavy price for the mismanagement -- that's the kindest word I can give you -- of Donald Rumsfeld, of this war. The price is very, very heavy and I regret it enormously. I think that Donald Rumsfeld will go down in history as one of the worst secretaries of defense in history.

McCain: Glory is not a conceit. It is not a decoration for valor. 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 in return.

McCain: (in reference to his daughter) Like every other 13-year-old in America, she's in love with Leonardo DiCaprio, who I think is an androgynous wimp. You know what he does throughout the whole movie Titanic? He smokes.

McCain: I'm older than dirt and I've got more scars than Frankenstein.

McCain: We are taught to understand, correctly, that courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity for action despite our fears.

McCain: America has much to gain in terms of jobs and trade by meeting the growing world demand for advanced, environmentally sound technologies.

McCain: Our nation has both an obligation and self-interest in facing head-on the serious environmental, economic and national security threat posed by global warming.

McCain: Our political differences, now matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding convictions.

McCain: Glory is not a conceit. It is not a decoration for valor. 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 in rerun.

John McCain: We cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves, from ourselves.

McCain: I am a Republican. I'm loyal to the party of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. And I believe that my party, in some ways, has strayed from those principles, particularly on the issue of fiscal discipline.

McCain: Do not yield. Do not flinch. Stand up. Stand up with our President and fight. We're Americans. We're Americans, and we'll never surrender. They will.