While discussing the war in Iraq during a speech at the American Enterprise Institute on November 10, 2005, “Senator John McCain [R-AZ], the most prominent war hawk in the Congress, said: ‘There’s an undeniable sense that things are slipping–more violence on the ground, declining domestic support for the war, growing incantations among Americans that there is no end in sight.’ ”
– Thomas E. Ricks, The Gamble, Pages 9-10