John McCain Quotes

Israel is part of the free world led by the United States, no matter what.

I believe he [Saddam Hussein] wants a better relationship with America.

Once in 1979, [Zbigniew] Brzezinski gave an important slogan: "Bye-bye PLO." After two months, I was in Tehran saying to him: "Bye-bye Brzezinski." Who can imagine that America will lose one of its strongest bases?

I believe that the United States is not genuine regarding having a cessation of violence in Syria.

Everyone knows that the Zionist regime is a tool in the hands of the United States and British governments.

In much of the world the U.S. is regarded as a leading terrorist state.

America has to stand by our allies. I think the tension that existed between Israel and the United States was very unfortunate.

Anyone supported by the United States is cursed by us.

The United States is squandering international prestige and goodwill and intensifying global anti-American terrorism by unofficially condoning or abetting the Israeli confiscation and colonization of Palestinian territories.

I am proposing a new foreign policy focused on advancing America's core national interests - so important - promoting regional stability, and producing and easing the tensions within our very troubled world.

If you study the behavior or the attitude of Syria, Iran, and U.S., you understand that these three countries can't come to terms with each other.

The United States has dealt with the Middle East and surrounding regions for many decades in the context of the Cold War.

Historians in the future will surely wonder what went so wrong when the United States, for the first time ever, focused its foreign policy on the Islamic world.

The U.S and England are not worthy of security council membership. Those who want good relations with the Iranian people should bow and surrender to its right and might.

The United States need not worry about hearts and minds in foreign lands.

...the policies that the United States has chosen unfortunately have brought about the wrong sentiment toward the United States and has only increased, and will only increase, extremism in our region.

We believe US threats of an approaching World War III and their use of Iran's nuclear issue as an excuse is another form of American insanity.

There is nothing in common between the United States and Saudi Arabia except Israel.

The United States is lucky: It has only two neighboring countries and oceans on both sides. We have over a dozen neighboring countries and we have a long and complicated history with them.

If the United States disengages from many issues confronting the international community it will be replaced.

As far as Israel, I am not worried about the relations between Israel and the United States.

America needs an adult in the White House who knows how to deal with China.

When America is stronger, the world is safer.

In the wake of Hillary Clinton's tenure as secretary of state, where she was the architect of the Obama administration's foreign policy, we see entire portions of the world, particularly the wider Middle East, literally spinning out of control.

I don't think Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump really have friends. But Trump has openly admired Putin for many years, with no reservations. He even seems to idolize him. Neither his cabinet appointees nor the civil servants in the Pentagon and the State Department feel the same way, however, so we don't know what this admiration will bring.