John McCain Quotes


One thing I have learned about lawyers is that if you look hard enough you will always find some who will agree with you.


Context

He was reacting to the fact that in the George W. Bush administration, they found a few lawyers in the Justice Department that they put into key positions and they wrote legal opinions stating that many commonly used forms of torture were not torture and therefore were legal. Of course the legal opinion was secret so other lawyers could not fault it, and the CIA actually used that as justification for the torture of some of the enemy combatants in the War on Terror.


Citations

John McCain, U. S. Senator (Republican, AZ), Republican Presidential Nominee, CNN Interview, The Situation Room, November 21, 2014

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John McCain
  • Born: August 29, 1936
  • Died: August 25, 2018
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Politician

John Sidney McCain III was an American politician, statesman and United States Navy officer who served as a United States Senator for Arizona from 1987 until his death in 2018. He previously served two terms in the United States House of Representatives and was the Republican nominee for president of the United States in the 2008 election, which he lost to Barack Obama.