Meghan McCain Quotes

I can’t cook, unless you want Cheez Whiz on a Ritz cracker.

My father loves Las Vegas, and he loves to play craps. Growing up, I’d find old Caesars Palace chips in his pocket that he forgot to cash out.

Aside from the likability factor, I can criticize Hillary’s politics all day long, but I never question her intelligence. I have never doubted that she is a strong, capable, smart leader.

I’m friends with people that probably would describe themselves as socialists and people that are much more conservative than I am. I can always find a middle ground.

I consider myself a progressive Republican. I am liberal on social issues.

When I was a little girl, and we would visit my grandmother whenever we were in D.C., she would always greet us at the door in elegant suits or gowns with matching pearls and earrings.

What do I predict with the HBO ‘Game Change’ movie? I expect my family and Sarah Palin to be nothing short of crucified.

When people don’t like my politics, I am happy to have a political discussion with them.

HBO is turning ‘Game Change’ into a miniseries, and they’ve cast Ed Harris as my dad.

The idea of the celebrity politician is nothing new, and depending on one’s perspective, either President Obama or Sarah Palin are the country’s first celebrity politicians.

The baby boomers have dropped the ball on their burden of responsibility.

As I watched on TV the nest of reporters and groupies surround Palin at the Iowa State Fair, I couldn’t help but sit back and wonder if she’s become the ultimate party crasher for the Republican Party.

When I’m 100 years old, if I make it that long, when I die, probably the first tag line will be John McCain’s daughter, and I’m so proud of him and proud of my family’s legacy and our life, so I don’t have a problem with it.

If you’re a public figure, and if you’re working in the White House, you should expect everything you’re saying in any context to be leaked.

I don’t fit into the traditional Republican box that the wingnuts who have hijacked my party think all Republicans should.

The only bus tours to political events I ever went on with my father were when he was running for president. Why else would you be touring the nation in a bus?

Every day of my life, I come against a conservative who wants me to shut up. I do believe I’m right and they are wrong.

Gimmicks belong almost anyplace except a Republican presidential primary.

I don’t think I suffer from Trump derangement syndrome in a sense that I can separate the man from the White House.

I’m the daughter of one of the most long-standing senators in politics, and I have been given every opportunity that anyone could possibly dream of. I was given those opportunities as a result of the hard work from both sides of my family.

The White House isn’t the only platform with a voice. ABC has a pretty big voice, too.

Hell would freeze over before I would do a reality show. I’ve been offered everything you could possibly imagine, and it just doesn’t interest me. You certainly won’t see me dancing on TV.

This should be the message of Occupy Wall Street: We just want a chance; our government needs to give us a chance.

It is really hard not to love Whoopi Goldberg.

The right-wing conservatives are so entitled in their snobbery that no one is ever good enough for them, so the rest of us, especially moderates, must suffer.

I spend a lot of time dancing in gay bars and want my gay friends to be able to get married, but I don’t know if I ever want to get married and have kids. And I think that’s a common struggle.

I spent almost two years trying to get my father elected president.

Come 2012, I am not going to be voting for someone based on who I think would be the most fun to hang out and have a beer with. I am going to be voting for the person that I think will have the best chance of beating President Obama and gaining votes from independents.

I love tattoos.

I love Las Vegas in a way separate from my love of any other American city. For me, growing up, it was a town of many firsts and where I enjoy a level of anonymity.

You’re nobody unless you have a gay rumor about you. I’ve been hit on by women from time to time, and it might simplify my life if I were gay, but no.

I grew up in a border state. I think immigration is an essential part of American history and American culture.

I was raised in an open-minded home. I was raised a Christian, but I was raised open-minded Christian – one to accept people, love people, not pass judgment.

My father’s legacy is going to be talked about for hundreds and hundreds of years.

My generation grew up in the heyday of the ’90s, with the Internet boom and the birth of overnight millionaires. But our politicians seem to be pushing personal agendas over the idea of making the world a better place for their children.

I’m not private about anything.

I’m not scared of death anymore.

President Obama is a poker player, which the media used as part of the narrative that he was more calculated and careful as a politician.

Much like the Tea Party, Occupy Wall Street’s message has gotten wrapped up in stereotypes. The Tea Party was weighed down by the birther movement, and Occupy Wall Street has gotten looped in with hippie culture.

My father is the sun in my universe.

I’m a nonstop extrovert, a people person who loves mingling and gabbing and getting out in the world.

The anger from Occupy Wall Street is coming from this simple fact: America no longer seems to be a place where you can work your way up, from rags to riches, from lower class to middle class to upper class.

When people tell me that I must get my maverick gene from my father, they are only half right. My father and I both have inherited our rebellious personalities from Nana. She has always lived her life on her own terms, something that was once considered quite scandalous, given the times she grew up in.

I am often invited to speak at colleges, and whenever I do Q and A’s, a question that inevitably comes up is, ‘How do you put up with the blogosphere?’ It’s a valid question, and I don’t really know what answer to give. The truth is that I don’t know what to do.

I am a person of great faith and idealism and have been in too many situations too many times to become an eternal pessimist regarding politics.

My father is gone, and I miss him as only an adoring daughter can.

I want to say that since my dad has been diagnosed, I really feel like I understand the meaning of life, and it is not how you die: it is how you live.

The America of John McCain is generous and welcoming and bold.

To be completely honest, I don’t believe that Palin has any intention of actually running for president. Granted, trying to predict Sarah Palin’s next move is like trying to nail Jell-O to the wall.

My favorite thing about my grandmother is her lust for life and how much she has shown me about living every day to the fullest. To say my grandmother has paved the way for me and so many women out there like me is an understatement.

I’m so thankful to Fox News for the chance to be on ‘Outnumbered,’ but I’m leaving to focus on other things. I have no doubt the show will continue to do well and wish all my friends and colleagues at the network nothing but success.

I was with my father at his end, as he was with me at my beginning. In the thirty-three years we shared together, he raised me, taught me, corrected me, comforted me, encouraged me, and supported me in all things.

I care more about my economy, national security, and fiscal conservatism than I do about what other women do with their bodies. It’s not my place, and I don’t believe it’s the government’s place, to make such decisions.

I know what kind of books I read on vacation, and it is not necessarily ‘Diplomacy’ by Henry Kissinger. No disrespect to that book; I have read that book. But not on spring break.

I grew up in Arizona listening to Hank Williams Jr., Johnny Cash, Tammy Wynette, and Dolly Parton.

I just think I’m the average all-American girl.

‘Game Change,’ the infamous bestseller written by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, has plagued anyone directly associated with the 2008 election cycle.

As a general rule, I wouldn’t put anything in a text or e-mail or on social media that I wouldn’t want the whole world to see.

We all know that Sarah Palin loves attention.

People expect me to live in a picture-perfect Pottery Barn kind of place, but I don’t like anything traditional.

The infamous political ads like Carly Fiorina’s ‘Demon Sheep’ and Christine O’Donnell’s ‘I Am Not a Witch’ are so confusing, it’s almost like they were paid for by Democrats.

There are people I know who love President Trump and think that he’s the greatest thing that’s ever happened to America. I understand those people. I’m not shocked by them. I defend their right to love him. But I do think character and rhetoric matter.

I can’t really regret things; you just have to move on and live your life.

Whatever historical or ideological relevance the Iowa caucus has will more than likely not get you to the White House, but it will probably get you a sweet gig at Fox News.

It’s no secret that the blogosphere is more vicious on women than it is on men.

My family is really good at letting go of things and moving on.

It’s because of women like my grandmother Roberta – women who have lived their lives fearlessly, on their own terms – that I am who I am. I’m grateful to have such an inspiring woman as a grandmother.

Campaigns are weird animals and innately bring out bizarre road stories.

I hate to rain on anyone’s parade or burst the enthusiasm bubble, but talk is especially cheap during an election season.

America cannot function if we are a society fueled by riots.