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" A lot of us were wondering, what is Trump really going to be like? He used to support Democrats and have various views earlier in his life about politics. "
Mitch McConnell
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" Back during the campaign, there were a lot of questions: Is Trump really a conservative? A lot of questions about it. "
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" Syria and Iran have always had a pretty tight relationship, and it looks to me like they just cooked up a press release to put out to sort of restate the obvious. They're both problem countries; we know that. And this doesn't change anything. "
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Know
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" The Russians are clearly a big adversary, and they demonstrated it by trying to mess around in our election. "
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" Bolton's exactly what the U.N. needs at this point. The president's right on the mark in picking him. "
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" We're a country of five-second sound bites and 30-second commercials. Eight years of one person is just too much. "
Mitch McConnell
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Person
" Everybody has barriers to overcome, some more than others. I don't want to act like I'm all that unique. America's full of stories like mine. This is a special country with enormous opportunity for those who don't quit. "
Mitch McConnell
Special
Unique
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" The Frist fairness rule guarantees up-or-down votes for every circuit court or Supreme Court nomination, regardless of which party controls the Senate or the White House. "
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White
Party
Supreme Court
" We're not Democrats first. We're not Republicans first. We're Americans first. We're patriots first. "
Mitch McConnell
First
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Republicans
" We did the two-year extension of Bush tax cuts in 2010. We negotiated the Budget Control Act in August of 2011 and the fiscal cliff deal at the end of 2012, which saved 99 percent of Americans from a tax increase. "
Mitch McConnell
Budget
Control
Cliff
" I'm not going to critique every utterance of the president. "
Mitch McConnell
Critique
Going
Every
" I always think a debt ceiling is a good tool to carry something. "
Mitch McConnell
Tool
Always
Carry
" 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. "
Mitch McConnell
Year
Bad
End
" You know, 'Professor Obama' has been a label applied to him by Republicans and Democrats alike. He's a very smart guy. But I think he'd be, you know, better served not to spend so much time trying to impress us with his particular position on an issue and understand that there are things upon which we simply have a disagreement. "
Mitch McConnell
You
Know
Better
" My first memory in life was my last visit to Warm Springs. "
Mitch McConnell
Life
First
Warm
" To call this a recovery is an insult to recoveries. "
Mitch McConnell
Insult
Call
Recovery
" I'm not going to comment on White House personnel selections. "
Mitch McConnell
White House
White
House
" The fact is, if our primary legislative goals are to repeal and replace the health spending bill; to end the bailouts; cut spending; and shrink the size and scope of government, the only way to do all these things it is to put someone in the White House who won't veto any of these things. "
Mitch McConnell
Health
White
Goals
" We're living under the Obama economy. Any CEO in America with a record like this after three years on the job would be graciously shown the door. This president blames the managers instead. He blames the folks on the shop floor. He blames the weather. "
Mitch McConnell
Door
Weather
America
" Diplomacy is important, extremely important, and I don't think these reductions at the State Department are appropriate because many times diplomacy is a lot more effective - and cert cheaper - than military engagement. "
Mitch McConnell
Military
Diplomacy
Think
" We all got here from somewhere else going back in our lineage. And I think these gratuitous attacks on Americans who got here recently or whose parents got here recently need to stop. "
Mitch McConnell
Parents
Back
Going
" Mitt Romney has never been resigned to what someone else said was possible. He cut his own path. That's why he believes in his heart that America has a future full of opportunity and hope. And that's why when Mitt Romney looks down the road, he sees a country that's ready for a comeback. "
Mitch McConnell
Hope
Future
Heart
" The administration still wants to govern from the far-left and that's going to produce kind a partisan result here in the Congress. "
Mitch McConnell
Kind
Result
Here
" So in the House and Senate, we own the budget. So what does that mean? That means that we can pass the spending bill. "
Mitch McConnell
Own
Pass
Senate
" The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice. "
Mitch McConnell
People
American
Court
" The money that goes into Social Security is not the government's money. it's your money. You paid for it. "
Mitch McConnell
Money
Security
You
" No matter what a candidate for president may say during the campaign, once someone is sworn in, they are constrained by the Constitution - about what the Constitution allows and doesn't allow, what the law allows and doesn't allow. "
Mitch McConnell
Say
Matter
Law
" I don't in any way think the American people rejected the Republican Party, or we'd be in a lot worse shape than we are. "
Mitch McConnell
American
Think
Republican
" Are we still a country that takes risks, that innovates, that believes anything is possible? Or are we a country that is resigned to whatever liberty the government decides to dish out? "
Mitch McConnell
Liberty
Country
Government
" Bills should go through committee. "
Mitch McConnell
Should
Through
Go
" I thought the Pence selection ought to reassure the right-of-center voters that a Trump administration would be a right-of-center administration. "
Mitch McConnell
Administration
Would
Voters