Something for those too busy to get the whole scoop.
25 quotes taken from the John McCain-Vicki Iseman story--with two bonus quotes.
Quotations from before, during and after the New York Times released the story--by the principle participants and others.
27 quotes in all.
Enjoy!
“People like that appeal to me.”
--John McCain, on Charles Keating, in his memoir, "Worth Fighting For"
"More importantly, my children and I not only trust my husband, but know that he would never do anything to not only disappoint our family, but more importantly, disappoint the people of America."
--Cindy McCain, February 21, 2008.
Cindy McCain was involved with the then-married John McCain, before they were married.
"Obviously I'm very disappointed in the article. It's not true,"
--John McCain February 21, 2008
"There is no better illustration of everything that is WRONG with Washington than the John McCain-Vicki Iseman tryst. The Republican Chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee carrying on with a comely female Republican lobbyist who represents the corporate interests of other Republicans with business before the committee and who donates to the chairman's campaigns. Wow!"
--Joseph Palmero, Huffington Post
"If she has nothing to hide, I think she should come forward."
--Gennifer Flowers, former mistress of Bill Clinton, on the TV Show "Extra"
"I had no reason to ask her."
--former McCain top aide, John Weaver, on whether he'd asked Iseman about a romantic affair with John McCain
"I know John McCain [and] attended North Phoenix Baptist Church with him for years. He tried to get many of us to invest in the BFA scandal we told him it was a fraud; he insisted anyway. Later after it was indicted and a fraud, he admitted they supported him with some of the ill gotten gains. He knew it was a Ponzi fraud and yet tried to get us to give it money which then went to him. McCain is a phony and fraud and he should have been indicted in the BFA Scandal."
--Scott, in a comment left on DBKP story, "John McCain: New Female Lobbyist Scandal?"
“Why is she always around?”
--Unnamed McCain aide asking about Iseman in 2000.
“He is essentially an honorable person, but he can be imprudent.”
--William P. Cheshire, a friend of Mr. McCain who as editorial page editor of The Arizona Republic defended him during the Keating Five scandal
"THE NEW YORK TIMES may have raised some questions about John McCain yesterday, but it sure answered a biggie: How does an old white guy get attention when he's running against the potentially first African-American or female president?"
--Jill Porter in the Philadelphia Enquirer
“We used to joke that each of us was the only one eating alone in our caucus."
--Senator Russ Feingold, Democrat of Wisconsin, who became Mr. McCain’s partner on campaign finance efforts, which many conservatives have decried as suppression of free speech and unconstitutional.
“Her conduct and what she allegedly had told people, which made its way back to us.”
--John Weaver, top former McCain aide
“I never discussed with him alleged things I had ‘told people,’ that had made their way ‘back to’ him.”
Vicki Iseman, in an e-mail message to the NY Times
"Get lost".
--former McCain top aide, John Weaver, to Iseman
"Obviously, I'm very disappointed in The New York Times."
--Cindy McCain, February 21 2008
"McCain might not have had sex with "that woman" -- Ms. Iseman -- but Ms. Iseman's corporate clients were balls deep inside McCain's Commerce Committee."
--Joseph Palmero, Huffington Post
"She should surround herself with excellent advisors before she makes any statements."
--Gennifer Flowers, on "Extra"
“I would very much like to think that I have never been a man whose favor can be bought.”
--John McCain, about his Keating experience in his 2002 memoir, “Worth the Fighting For.”
“That imprudence or recklessness may be part of why he was not more astute about the risks he was running with this shady operator.”
--William P. Cheshire on Charles Keating, whose ties to Mr. McCain and four other lawmakers resulted in censure of one senator and investigation of all five, including McCain.
"John McCain plus lobbyist Vicki Iseman equals trouble for Republicans. Just ask the New York Times."
--comment left on YouTube video almost a month before the New York Times released the Iseman-McCain story by the mysterious EllaLohan
"Sanctimonious.”
--Unnamed Bush backer, describing John McCain.
"The New York Times spent about three thousand words attacking the presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain with some sort of charges about a lobbyist named Vicki Iseman. They used a bunch of unnamed sources for what many have called a hit piece and that drew comparisons for the newspaper to the National Enquirer.
But is that fair? Probably not for the Enquirer."
--Wendy Cook, in the National Ledger
“Why didn’t I fully grasp the unusual appearance of such a meeting?”
--John McCain about two private meetings with regulators to urge them to ease up on Keating during the Keating Five.
“I never had any good reason to think that the relationship was anything other than professional, a friendly professional relationship.”
--Mark Salter, Mr. McCain’s top strategists in both of his presidential campaigns, who disputed accounts from the former associates and aides and said they did not discuss Ms. Iseman with the senator or colleagues.
"We have the predictable news conference, in which the politician drags out the adoring wife to bolster him as he stands in front of reporters and denies everything."
--Jill Porter, in the Philadelphia Enquirer
“Unless he [McCain] gives you special treatment or takes legislative action against his own views, I don’t think his personal and social relationships matter.”
--Charles Black, McCain friend and campaign adviser who has previously lobbied the senator for aviation, broadcasting and tobacco concerns.
“Any hint that I might have acted to reward a supporter would be taken as an egregious act of hypocrisy.”
--John McCain, in him memoir
Did John McCain and Vicki Iseman discuss "special favors" for her while engaged in "special favors" for him?
We don't know.
But that won't stop people from talking about it--for a while anyway.
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* The Mysterious EllaLohan
* Vicki Isman, The National Enquirer and the New York Times
* Thanks to the Old White Guy and the Old Gray Lady
* For McCain, Self-Confidence on Ethics Poses Its Own Risks
* Vicki Iseman Gets Advice from Gennifer Flowers
* Vicki Iseman and John McCain: It's the Money, Stupid
* McCain denies affair with lobbyist
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10 Quotes About John McCain
With all the attention paid by the media on why conservatives have no love for John McCain, we decided to go looking for McCain quotes that might possibly explain the animosity on both sides.
We found 30 (actually 31, but we like round numbers).
So here are 30 John McCain Quotes, plus 10 bonus quotes about McCain.
"The first thing that I would do is call in John Kerry, Bob Kerrey, Joe Biden, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Henry Kissinger, Dick Lugar, Chuck Hagel, and several others and say, ‘We’ve got to get foreign policy, national security issues back on track.'"
--When asked the first thing he would do if elected President, 3/00
"No, I'm calling you a f*cking jerk."
--to fellow GOP Senator Chuck Grassley, when Grassley asked "Are you calling me stupid?", 2/21/00
“We give the millionaire a $2,000 refund. Gov. Bush gives him $50,000.”
—-On the Bush tax cuts, Boston Globe, Jan. 27, 2000.
"Washington is a Hollywood for ugly people. Hollywood is a Washington for the simpleminded."
--John McCain
"Dishonest and dishonorable."
--John McCain, on the Swift Boats Vets
The problem... is that most members of Congress don't pay attention to what's going on.
--John McCain
"F**k you! I know more about this than anyone else in the room."
--to Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), during a testy exchange about immigration legislation
"Never get into a wrestling match with a pig. You both get dirty, and the pig likes it."
--Senator John McCain said in New Hampshire in January after reporters asked him about Mr. Romney.
"As a governor and senator, John Chafee set the standard for honesty and decency that the rest of us on our best days could only dream to emulate."
--John McCain on fellow RINO, ex-senator Chaffee
“I am concerned that repeal of the estate tax would provide massive benefits solely to the wealthiest and highest-income taxpayers in the country. A Treasury Department study found that almost no estate tax has been paid by lower- and middle-income taxpayers. But taxes have been paid on the estates of people who were in the highest 20% of the income distribution at the time of their death. It found that 91% of all estate taxes are paid by the estates of people whose annual income exceeded $190,000 around the time of their death."
--Senate floor statement opposing HR 8, a bill to permanently eliminate the death tax, June 11, 2002.
"Remember the words of Chairman Mao: 'It's always darkest before it's totally black.'."
--John McCain
"John Kerry is a very close friend of mine. We've been friends for years. Obviously, I would entertain it."
--When asked if he would entertain being Kerry's VP if asked, 3/10/04
"Just by coincidence, Senator Teddy Kennedy and I, in the last couple of days, after several months of negotiations, have reached an agreement for an immigration proposal that we will be putting out next week, ... our proposal is along the lines of make them pay a fine of a couple thousand dollars, make them work for three years, and after three years they can get in the back of the line for a green card and then eventually become citizens."
--John McCain on Immigration
"I believe that marijuana is a gateway drug. That is my view and that's the view of the federal drug czar and other experts, although that is also a debatable question. I think that there is much more effective ways of relieving pain and suffering than the use of marijuana, and so therefore I view it as something that I do not support. That's just my considered opinion, I'd be glad to receive additional information."
--(August 11, 2007, house party in Milton, New Hampshire)
"Do you know why Chelsea Clinton is so ugly? Because Janet Reno is her father."
--at a 1998 Republican fundraiser
"Presidential ambition is a disease that can only be cured by embalming fluid."
--John McCain, on why he's running
“In the short term, or even the long term, I would not support repeal of Roe v. Wade”
--John McCain, on Roe V. Wade
"By the way, I think the fence is least effective. But I’ll build the goddamned fence if they want it."
--John McCain, on immigration 2/07
"Thanks for the question, you little jerk."
-- John McCain, after being asked by a high school student if he was too old to be president. For good measure, McCain then threatened to draft him.
"Turn yourself in so we can send you back to Mexico, ... It's not going to happen."
--John McCain, on enforcing present immigration laws
"I am sure that Senator Clinton would make a good President. I have no doubt that Senator Clinton would make a good President."
--On possible opponent, Hillary Clinton 2/20/05
"It is my sincere hope that even if you believe I have occasionally erred in my reasoning as a fellow conservative, you will still allow that I have, in many ways important to all of us, maintained the record of a conservative."
--John McCain, on asking conservatives to support him as a conservative
"I believe my party has gone astray. I think the Democratic Party is a fine party, and I have no problems with it, in their views and their philosophy."
--John McCain in 2004
" Of course they didn't expect to receive benefits they had to pay here illegally ... The whole thrust of this legislation is to give them not only Social Security benefits but, as importantly, the protections under the law, as they now live in the shadows and are exploited and mistreated in many cases."
--John McCain, on immigration April 2, 2004
"Only an a**hole would put together a budget like this... I wouldn't call you an a**hole unless you really were an a**hole."
--to Budget Committee Chairman and fellow GOP Senator Pete Domenici in a Senate budget hearing
Leonardo DiCaprio is "an androgynous wimp."
--John McCain.
"Get started today and fill out your bracket to be eligible to win a McCain 2008 fleece, hat or pin for your prognostication prowess."
-- Sen. John McCain's campaign website.
"Gambling on amateur athletics is wrong."
-- McCain, in a statement introducing legislation in May 2003 to ban gambling on amateur sports.
“I don’t think the governor’s tax cut is too big—it’s just misplaced. Sixty percent of the benefits from his tax cuts go to the wealthiest 10% of Americans—and that’s not the kind of tax relief that Americans need. … Gov. Bush wants to spend the entire surplus on tax cuts. I don’t believe the wealthiest 10% of Americans should get 60% of the tax breaks. I think the lowest 10% should get the breaks. …
“I’m not giving tax cuts for the rich.”
—-Discussion with media, reported in “Bush, McCain Snip Over
Tax Cut Plans,” Los Angeles Times, and “GOP Rivals Bicker on Taxes,”
Washington Post, Jan. 5, 2000.
"I would rather have a clean government than one where quote First Amendment rights are being respected, that has become corrupt. If I had my choice, I'd rather have the clean government."
--John McCain, on the choices between respecting the Constitution and Bill of Right and McCain-Feingold 4/29/06
But please know, whether you believe campaign contributions are speech or property, that I learned to love very dearly the right of free expression when I lived without that freedom for a while a long time ago.
--John McCain
10 Quotes about John McCain
You know there will be three things in a John McCain sentence: a noun, a verb and a reference to his being a P.O.W.
--paraphrase of a Joseph Biden quote about Rudy Giuliani
"Congratulations to Senator John McCain, the big winner in Florida. ... You know, this was what they call a GOP-only primary. So McCain had to win over a whole new voter group for him -- Republicans."
--Jay Leno
"He said that anyone who said that he [McCain] supported amnesty is a "liar".
--Washington Times editorial, 1/25/08
"John Kerry said I can't tell you how proud I am to have John Edwards on my team, especially after John McCain turned me down."
--Jay Leno
"John Edwards is on the campaign trail. He's now doing something called his 'Poverty Tour', where he's visiting people who have no money and no hope. In fact, his first stop today: John McCain's headquarters."
--Jay Leno
"The thought of [McCain] being president sends a cold chill down my spine. He is erratic. He is hotheaded. He loses his temper and he worries me."
-- Senator Thad Cochran of Mississippi, who has known McCain for 35 years.
“I’d rather slit a vein than vote for John McCain.” Nice bumper sticker. Many conservatives aren’t just saying “No” to John McCain. They’re saying, “Hell, no!”
--unnamed woman at GOP event
"Congratulations to John McCain. He was a big winner up in New Hampshire. Fascinating comeback story, this John McCain, quite a guy. Highly decorated veteran. Spent five and a half years in prison then went into politics. Usually it's the other way around."
--Jay Leno
"I work with the community in the United States, the Mexican community because I don't want them essentially going native on us. We want them continually tied emotionally, linguistically, politically to Mexico, because then they'll continue to send money home."
--Juan Hernandez, Hispanic outreach director for John McCain
"Mexico first!"
--Hernandez
"He opposes oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in Alaska and has joined with Sen. Joe Lieberman to cosponsor legislation that would require that greenhouse gas emissions be reduced to 2000 levels by 2010 — a measure sure to result in substantial increases in electricity and gasoline costs."
--Washington Times editorial, 1/25/08
31 quotes by John McCain and 11 quotes about McCain.
Just the way to start your day off right.
compiled by Mondoreb
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* Quote of the Day: John McCain & the Democrat Party
* John McCain's Skeleton Closet
* On the Issues: John McCain
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