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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. "
Mitch McConnell
Congress
Result
Said
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" Americans don't think we should be raising taxes on anybody, especially in the middle of a recession. "
Mitch McConnell
Recession
Anybody
Think
" Our friends on the other side decided early on they didn't want to engage with us in a serious way, a serious way to help those suffering under Obamacare. "
Mitch McConnell
Suffering
Friends
Early
" 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
" 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. "
Mitch McConnell
Change
Need
Security
" 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. "
Mitch McConnell
America
Change
Effort
" 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
" I'm against lifting any sanctions on the Russians. "
Mitch McConnell
Sanctions
Against
Lifting
" I think that winning the White House is about more than just entertaining a large audience. "
Mitch McConnell
Think
Winning
Audience
" Putin is a former KGB agent. He's a thug. He was not elected in a way that most people would consider a credible election. "
Mitch McConnell
Most
Way
Thug
" 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. "
Mitch McConnell
Years
Big
Three
" I don't think there is any equivalency between the way the Russians conduct themselves and the way the United States does. "
Mitch McConnell
Does
Way
United States
" I think we need to respect the wishes of voters. They have been busily at work making these decisions in primary after primary after primary. "
Mitch McConnell
Work
Decisions
Need
" The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice. "
Mitch McConnell
People
American
Court
" 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
" 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
Know
Change
Me
" To call this a recovery is an insult to recoveries. "
Mitch McConnell
Insult
Call
Recovery
" 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.' "
Mitch McConnell
Job
Election
Good
" Almost never does a candidate with high negatives have much of a coattail effect. "
Mitch McConnell
Much
Never
Almost
" I'm not going to critique every utterance of the president. "
Mitch McConnell
Critique
Going
Every
" I don't want to sound like a whiner here, but if you get beat up all the time, it affects you. "
Mitch McConnell
Time
Want
Beat
" The country doesn't need saving. "
Mitch McConnell
Saving
Country
Need
" Do we need to tighten restrictions on people coming into the country? I think there's a good argument for that, but a kind of broad ban is a bad idea, and, of course, many American Muslims are great sources of information as we seek to look for domestic folks who might be engaged in trying to promote terrorist activities. "
Mitch McConnell
Great
Think
People
" The Senate is not the sort of place where instant gratification, I should say, is very likely. "
Mitch McConnell
Where
Senate
Gratification
" Personally criticizing a member of my staff hardly seemed like the way to negotiate a deal. "
Mitch McConnell
Way
Personally
Like
" Let me speak for myself: The Russians are not our friends. "
Mitch McConnell
Myself
Speak
Me
" It is time to move away from advise and obstruct and get back to advise and consent. "
Mitch McConnell
Get
Time
Away
" As President Obama reminded us, we're all on one team. "
Mitch McConnell
Team
Us
President
" 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
" We hear the stories every day now: the father who puts on a suit every morning and leaves the house so his daughter doesn't know he lost his job, the recent college grad facing up to the painful reality that the only door that's open to her after four years of study and a pile of debt is her parents'. These are the faces of the Obama economy. "
Mitch McConnell
Morning
Job
Father
" 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