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" Almost without exception, President Obama begins serious policy discussions by explaining why everyone else is wrong. After he assigns straw men to your views, he enthusiastically attempts to knock them down with a theatrically earnest re-litigation of what you've missed about his brilliance. "

Mitch McConnell

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" Let me speak for myself: The Russians are not our friends. "

Mitch McConnell

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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. "

" If the idea behind Obamacare was to get everyone covered, that's one of the many failures. "

" I want to reassure our NATO allies that if any of them get attacked, we'll be there to defend them. "

" I think I'd like to be an owner of a Major League Baseball team. "

" I think the important thing to remember here is that we haven't been attacked again at home since September of 2001. "

" 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. "

" Americans don't think we should be raising taxes on anybody, especially in the middle of a recession. "

" People are genuinely excited about taking the country in another direction. "

" If the administration wants cooperation, it will have to begin to move in our direction. "

" It took us in this country 11 years to get from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution. "

" Bolton's exactly what the U.N. needs at this point. The president's right on the mark in picking him. "

" I hope in the end that people will remember what Reagan said: that if he could get 80 percent of what he wanted, you call it a win and move on. "

" We're not gonna misread our mandate. "

" Americans are too speedy. "

Mitch McConnell

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" I don't think it's all that unusual for a new president to want to get along with the Russians. I remember George W. Bush having the same hope. "

" The debt they ran up in the first year of the Obama administration is bigger than the last four years of the Bush combined. "

" 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. "

" After adding trillions to the debt on big-government policies most Americans didn't ask for and which we couldn't afford, Democratic leaders say they need more money, which they intend to take from small business, even though small businesses create the majority of new jobs. "

" I think we know enough now to know that Donald Trump is doing the same kinds of things that Jeb Bush would have done or Marco Rubio would have done or Mitt Romney would have done. "

" Almost never does a candidate with high negatives have much of a coattail effect. "

" I think it's a big mistake for our party to write off Latino Americans. They're an important part of our country. "

" I thought the Pence selection ought to reassure the right-of-center voters that a Trump administration would be a right-of-center administration. "

" 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. "

Mitch McConnell

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" My first memory in life was my last visit to Warm Springs. "

" 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. "

" My view is that Trump will not change the Republican Party, America's right-of-center party. If he brings in new followers, that's great, and well worth the effort, but he will not change the Republican Party. "

" I don't think there is any equivalency between the way the Russians conduct themselves and the way the United States does. "

" I'm optimistic that none of my members in the end want to be responsible for the status quo on Obamacare. "

" It is a president's constitutional right to nominate a Supreme Court justice, and it is the Senate's constitutional right to act as a check on a president and withhold its consent. "