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" America being a force is a lot more than building up the Defense Department. "
Mitch McConnell
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" As I've said repeatedly over the last few years, the war on coal was not a result of anything Congress passed; there was no legislation. "
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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. "
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" It took us in this country 11 years to get from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution. "
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History
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" I do think that the Constitution and the traditions of this country constrain all of us - those of us in Congress and those of us in the White House - from some of our impulses, shall I say, that we'd like to pursue. "
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" I just want to remind everybody that this is an extraordinarily resilient country we live in. "
Mitch McConnell
Want
Country
Just
" I don't think there should be a litmus test on judges, no matter who the president is. "
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Judges
Matter
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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. "
Mitch McConnell
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Back
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" In the last 100 years, three presidents suffered big defeats in Congress in their first term and then won reelection: Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, and the most recent example, Bill Clinton. "
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Years
Big
Three
" We all know that Social Security is one of this country's greatest success stories in the 20th century. "
Mitch McConnell
Success
Security
Social
" We need to be honest with the public. "
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Honest
Need
" A reporter asked recently, 'What keeps you up at night?' I replied that I generally sleep well, but if I ever do have trouble, I don't have to count sheep. I count all the states I'm glad I'm not the governor of. "
Mitch McConnell
Sheep
You
Well
" I try to appeal to all Kentucky voters, regardless of gender, about the future of state. "
Mitch McConnell
Future
Kentucky
Voters
" 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
" 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
Down
Men
Missed
" 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. "
Mitch McConnell
Government
Vision
Change
" Mitt Romney has spent his entire life finding ways to solve problems. "
Mitch McConnell
Life
Problems
Ways
" The majority in the Senate is prepared to restore the Senate's traditions and precedents to ensure that regardless of party, any president's judicial nominees, after full and fair debate, receive a simple up-or-down vote on the Senate floor. "
Mitch McConnell
Party
Simple
Judicial
" Some contend that, by fulfilling our promise to the American people, we're somehow trying to go back to the way things were before ObamaCare - which we all know is untrue. "
Mitch McConnell
Go
Trying
People
" The people who would call me an obstructionist overlook some inconvenient facts. "
Mitch McConnell
People
Me
Facts
" I only talk to the press if it's to my advantage. "
Mitch McConnell
Only
Press
Talk
" The American people gave us a new majority in 2014. "
Mitch McConnell
Majority
American
Us
" By their own admission, leaders of the Republican Revolution of 1994 think their greatest mistake was overlooking the power of the veto. They gave the impression they were somehow in charge when they weren't. "
Mitch McConnell
Own
Think
Revolution
" 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
Life
Politics
Support
" Trump was able to convey - oddly enough a message from a billionaire who lives in Manhattan - a genuine concern for people who felt kind of left off, who felt offended by all the political correctness they see around them. "
Mitch McConnell
Enough
Political
People
" There is a lot of room for improvement in Social Security. We owe our children the most financially sound system possible. They will have paid into it their entire working lives. They deserve to be protected by it. for our children and grandchildren. "
Mitch McConnell
Improvement
Grandchildren
Children
" We're not gonna misread our mandate. "
Mitch McConnell
Gonna
Mandate
Our
" I think it's a big mistake for our party to write off Latino Americans. They're an important part of our country. "
Mitch McConnell
Important
Latino
Think
" My first memory in life was my last visit to Warm Springs. "
Mitch McConnell
Life
First
Warm
" America is about to turn the page on Barack Obama's four-year experiment in big government. "
Mitch McConnell
America
Page
Government
" 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