John Warner Quotes


This is beyond loyalty and friendship. It is about the integrity of this institution of the Senate.


Context

Explanation of why he had withdrawn his support for his old friend and Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott when Lott publicly stated that the country would have been better off had the Dixiecrat Segregationists won the 1948 Presidential election.


Citations

John Warner, U. S. Senator (Republican, VA), CNN December 19, 2002

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John Warner
John Warner
  • Born: February 18, 1927
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Politician

John William Warner III is an American attorney and former politician who served as the United States Secretary of the Navy from 1972 to 1974 and a five-term Republican U.S. Senator from Virginia from 1979 to 2009. He currently works for the law firm of Hogan Lovells, where he had previously worked before joining the United States Department of Defense as the Under Secretary of the Navy during the presidency of Richard Nixon in 1969.