“I had other priorities in the ’60s than military service.”
“No, but that’s not too important.
What’s important is the casualties in Iraq.”
– John McCain on the Today Show with Matt Lauer responding
to the question “If it’s working (the surge), Senator, do you now
have a better estimate of when American forces can come
home from Iraq?”, June 11, 2008
“The master not only governs the slave without his consent, but he governs him by a set of rules altogether different from those which he prescribes for himself. Allow all the governed an equal voice in the government, and that, and that only, is self-government.”
– Abraham Lincoln in a speech in Peoria, Illinois, arguing against the Kansas-Nebraska Act which repealed the Missouri Compromise and allowed for slavery north of 36 30′ latitude, October 16, 1854
“And I will not accept from Senator Obama, who did not feel
it was his responsibility to serve our country in uniform, any
lectures on my regard for those who did.”
– John McCain responding to Barack Obama’s criticism of John
McCain and George Bush for not supporting a new GI Bill to
make college more affordable for veterans, May 22, 2008
“We do not know one promise these men made, one pledge they gave, one word they spoke; but we do know they summed up and perfected, by one supreme act, the highest virtues of men and citizens. For love of country they accepted death and thus resolved all doubts, and made immortal their patriotism and virtue.”
– President James A. Garfield at the very first Memorial Day observance
on the ground of Arlington National Cemetery, May 30th, 1868
“I think it’s very clear who Hamas wants to
be the next president of the United States.”
– John McCain in a conference call with bloggers discussing
an endorsement of Barack Obama by Ahmed Yousef, chief
political adviser to the Prime Minister of Hamas, April 25, 2008
