John McCain, to ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos, on why he left the campaign trail as Congress worked on a Wall Street bailout deal: “I came back because I wasn’t going to phone it in.”
McCain senior advisor Mark Salter, to the New York Times’ Elisabeth Bumiller, on what McCain was doing in Washington to help reach a deal: “He’s calling members on both sides, talking to people in the administration, helping out as he can … he can effectively do what he needs to do by phone.”
