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" As President Obama reminded us, we're all on one team. "
Mitch McConnell
Team
Us
President
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" And this year, when we end the cruel, defeatist practice of passing children who cannot read into fourth grade, and when our most diligent students begin to graduate from high school in 11 years, and get a head start on college costs with the dollars they earned through their hard work, others will take notice of Indiana yet again. "
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School
" Let me speak for myself: The Russians are not our friends. "
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Speak
Me
" It took us in this country 11 years to get from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution. "
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Independence
" After 1994, the public had the impression we Republicans overpromised and underdelivered. "
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Public
" We all know that Social Security is one of this country's greatest success stories in the 20th century. "
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Security
Social
" America's a land of second opportunities. "
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Land
America
Second
" It is time for a leader who will lead. "
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Who
Will
Time
" I don't want to sound like a whiner here, but if you get beat up all the time, it affects you. "
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Time
Want
Beat
" 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. "
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Money
Business
Create
" We need to be honest with the public. "
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To Be Honest
Honest
Need
" It just doesn't occur to an American that someone else will solve their problems. Americans take pride in solving problems for themselves. And if we fail, we get back up and try again. It's what we do. It's who we are. "
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Back
Problems
Someone
" 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? "
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Liberty
Country
Government
" 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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Debt
Bigger
First
" America being a force is a lot more than building up the Defense Department. "
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Force
Defense
More
" So in the House and Senate, we own the budget. So what does that mean? That means that we can pass the spending bill. "
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Own
Pass
Senate
" 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. "
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Say
Matter
Law
" When you hang the 'bipartisan' tag on something, the perception is that differences have been worked out, and there's a broad agreement that that's the way forward. "
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You
Differences
Forward
" 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
" 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. "
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Health
White
Goals
" I'm not going to comment on White House personnel selections. "
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White House
White
House
" 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
" 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. "
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Suffering
Friends
Early
" We need to bear in mind that we don't have religious tests in this country, and we also need to remember that some of our best allies in the war against Islamic terrorism are Muslims. "
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Country
Mind
Need
" I think it's a big mistake for our party to write off Latino Americans. They're an important part of our country. "
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Important
Latino
Think
" 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. "
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Party
Simple
Judicial
" What will happen is the bills will start out the way we like them; in order to move them - we'll probably have to make compromises. That's the way the legislative process works when it's functioning. "
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Process
Move
Like
" People are genuinely excited about taking the country in another direction. "
Mitch McConnell
Excited
Direction
Country
" 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. "
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Sheep
You
Well
" 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. "
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American
Think
Republican
" 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. "
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Change
Need
Security