John Sidney McCain III, né le 29 août 1936 sur la base militaire américaine de Coco Solo , est un vétéran de la guerre du Viêt Nam et homme politique américain, membre du Parti républicain et sénateur de l'Arizona au Congrès des États-Unis depuis 1987.
Fils et petit-fils d'amiral, John McCain est pilote durant la guerre du Vietnam. Capturé à Hanoï, il est fait prisonnier durant cinq ans et demi et est victime de tortures. Libéré en 1973, les mauvais traitements endurés lui laissent des séquelles au niveau des bras et des épaules.
Élu en 1983 à la Chambre des représentants, il devient sénateur des États-Unis pour l'Arizona en 1987 - poste qu'il occupe encore aujourd'hui.
Après avoir tenté, sans succès, en 2000 de recevoir l'investiture républicaine pour être le candidat du parti à l'élection présidentielle, il est huit ans plus tard le candidat républicain à l'élection présidentielle de novembre 2008, qu'il perd avec 45,7 % des voix et 173 grands électeurs, face à Barack Obama, qui obtient 52,9 % et 365 grands électeurs.
John McCain fait figure d'électron libre au sein de son propre parti. Si plusieurs de ses idées rejoignent la ligne du GOP , certaines s'en éloignent — sensibilité écologique, volonté d'assainir le financement des campagnes politiques, condamnation de la torture en Irak et à Guantanamo, soutien à un projet de légalisation des immigrés clandestins, critiques soutenues et régulières à l'égard de l'administration de Donald Trump — tout en étant un spécialiste bipartisanement reconnu des questions de défense et de politique étrangère.
“At the moment of conception.”
Question: "At what point is a baby entitled to human rights?"
Saddleback Civil Forum with Pastor Rich Warren, 18 August 2008 http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0808/16/se.02.html
2000s, 2008
Speaking in Charleston, West Virginia http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5itzEFe8o5QDV0EFCZG6ZJDbJwdLQD90MUVJO0 (14 May 2008)
2000s, 2008
“I'm glad whenever they cut interest rates, I wish interest rates were zero.”
Republican presidential debate http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21221689/ (9 October 2007)
2000s, 2007
February 2008 http://online.wsj.com/article_print/SB120451614688707083.html
2000s, 2008
1 May 2008; Fox News http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/05/01/candidates-weigh-in-on-5th-anniversary-of-mission-accomplished-banner/
2000s, 2008
2010s, 2016, Statement regarding the Khan family (1 August 2016)
Speech to the American Red Cross "Promise of Humanity" conference http://mccain.senate.gov/index.cfm?fuseaction=Newscenter.ViewPressRelease&Content_id=820 (6 May 1999).
1990s
“Only a fool or a fraud talks tough or romantically about war.”
Campaign ad, quoted in Newsweek (23 June 2008), p. 21
2000s, 2008
In Republican presidential debate, Orlando, Florida, 21 October 2007 http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/21/us/politics/21debate-transcript.html?pagewanted=3
2000s, 2007
When asked at a town hall meeting prior to the 2008 New Hampshire Primary about a Bush statement that U.S. troops could be in Iraq for 50 years. 3 January 2008 http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/02/14/mccain.king/index.html
2000s, 2008
The CNN/YouTube Republican presidential debate http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/11/28/debate.transcript/
2000s, 2007
2010s, 2018, Farewell statement (2018)
Said in a speech http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/10/21/agreeing_to_disagree_or_someth.html near Kansas City, Missouri, 20 October 2008. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/22/us/politics/22pennsylvania.html?hp
2000s, 2008
Supposedly said to Senator Pete Domenici at a GOP meeting in the fall of 1999. http://www.newsweek.com/id/82862
Disputed
Remarks following the South Carolina Primary http://www.votesmart.org/speech_detail.php?sc_id=72173 (19 February 2000).
2000s
1990s, Speech at Ohio Wesleyan University (1997)
Speaking about Don't ask, don't tell, before students at Iowa State University — [The Washington Post, The Washington Post Company, February 3, 2010, Michael D., Shear, McCain appears to shift on 'don't ask, don't tell', http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/02/AR2010020202588.html, 2010-10-28]
2000s, 2006
1990s, Speech at Ohio Wesleyan University (1997)
On C-SPAN3, American History TV, quoted in The Republic https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/ej-montini/2017/10/22/john-mccain-mocks-donald-trumps-deferment-bone-spurs-without-naming-him/789051001/ (October 2017)
2010s, 2017
2010s, 2016, Statement regarding the Khan family (1 August 2016)
As quoted in "Romney guru thrives in political 'show business'" https://web.archive.org/web/20060307070315/http://www.boston.com:80/news/politics/president/articles/2005/06/12/romney_guru_thrives_in_political_show_business/?page=full (12 June 2005), by Brian C. Mooney, The Boston Globe
2000s, 2005
Remarks after being banned from entering Russia http://www.politico.com/story/2015/03/john-mccain-russia-ban-116220.html#ixzz3bkitHxmA (3 March 2015)
2010s, 2015
"Russia dissidents are our moral equals" http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/02/13/trump-gets-it-wrong-on-putin-russia-moral-equals-john-mccain-column/97822770/ (13 February 2017), USA Today
2010s, 2017
As quoted in "McCain: Obama's 'slouch' comment dismissive of Putin" http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/08/11/mccain-obamas-slouch-comment-dismissive-of-putin/, (11 August 2013), The Washington Post
2010s, 2013
2000s, 2004, Speech at the Republican National Convention (2004)
On being asked whether O. J. Simpson could get a fair trial in the robbery case, in a televised interview http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20838374/ on Hardball with Chris Matthews, 17 September 2007
2000s, 2007
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2000s, 2008, (2008)
