“I am a Republican. I'm loyal to the party of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt.

“Our political differences, no matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding convictions.”

- John McCain, U.S. Senator, presidential candidate

 

“To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public .”

- Theodore Roosevelt, 26th president of the United States