“I hated my enemies even before they held me captive because hate sustained me in my devotion to their complete destruction and helped me overcome the virtuous human impulse to recoil in disgust from what had to be done by my hand.”
– Senator John McCain

“Get on with the business of killing our enemies as quickly as we can, and as ruthlessly as we must.”
– Senator John McCain, about the Taliban in Afghanistan

“I believe that the Iraqi people will greet us as liberators.”
– Senator John McCain

“John McCain fits perfectly as an authoritarian leader, possessing most, if not all, of these traits: dominating, opposes equality, desirous of personal power, amoral, intimidating and bullying, faintly hedonistic, vengeful, pitiless, exploitive, manipulative, dishonest, cheats to win, highly prejudiced (racist, sexist, homophobic), mean-spirited, militant, nationalistic, tells others what they want to hear, takes advantage of “suckers”, specializes in creating false images to sell self, may or may not be religious, usually politically and economically conservative/Republican”
– John Dean