Mitch McConnell quotes

It took us in this country 11 years to get from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution. (Mitch McConnell)
One of my proudest moments was when I looked Barack Obama in the eye and I said, 'Mr. President, you will not fill the Supreme Court vacancy. View quote
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Things happen in American politics in the political center. If the President will meet us in the center, there are things we can accomplish. View quote
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While other state governments stiff their vendors, close parks, delay tax refunds, and ignore unacceptably poor service levels, Indiana state employees are setting national standards for efficiency. View quote
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We need to strengthen and save Social Security for today's workers. If we don't act now, this system, born out of the New Deal, will become a bad deal. View quote
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There was no involvement whatsoever. View quote
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I can't imagine that a Republican majority in the United States Senate would want to confirm, in a lame duck session, a nominee opposed by the National Rifle Association. View quote
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Apparently there's yet a new standard now to not confirm a Supreme Court nominee at all. I think that's something the American people simply will not tolerate. View quote
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She was warned. She was given an explanation. Nevertheless, she persisted. View quote
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I think the testimony obviously ought to be sworn testimony. And we ought to go all the way into this and take as much time as we can to reassure the American people that this sort of thing's not going to happen again in the future. View quote
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With regard to White House officials, it will be up to the President to decide frankly whether and when and under what circumstances members of his [own White House staff] testify. (Mitch McConnell)
Nobody is happy about losing lives but, remember, these are not draftees. These are full-time professional soldiers. View quote
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We need to say to everyone on Election Day, "Those of you who helped make this a good day, you need to go out and help us finish the job." (National Journal): What's the job? The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president. View quote
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Every election we know features some illegality and irregularity, and of course that's unacceptable. I support strong state-led voting reforms. Last year's bizarre pandemic procedures must not become the new norm, but my colleagues, nothing before us proves illegality anywhere near the massive scale, the massive scale that would have tipped the entire election, nor can public doubt alone justify a radical break when the doubt itself was incited without any evidence. View quote
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The pathway our Democratic colleagues have accepted will spare the American people any near-term crisis. View quote
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We have a criminal justice system in this country. We have civil litigation. And former Presidents are not immune from being held accountable by either one. View quote
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African American voters are voting in just as high a percentage as Americans. View quote
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We're going to do everything we can to make sure she's successful. View quote
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More young people believe they'll see a U.F.O. than that they'll see their own Social Security benefits. View quote
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The administration still wants to govern from the far-left and that's going to produce kind a partisan result here in the Congress. View quote
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Americans don't think we should be raising taxes on anybody, especially in the middle of a recession. (Mitch McConnell)
The White House has a choice: They can change course, or they can double down on a vision of government that the American people have roundly rejected. View quote
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The president feels not only do we need to change these rogue regimes, but even our friendly allies, who really basically have, sort of, benign dictatorships, need to get with the program if they want to have long-term security and prosperity from terrorism. View quote
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The bill that job creators and out-of-work Americans need us to pass is the one that ensures taxes won't go up - one that says Americans and small-business owners won't get hit with more bad news at the end of the year. View quote
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The debt they ran up in the first year of the Obama administration is bigger than the last four years of the Bush combined. View quote
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