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" I don't think there should be a litmus test on judges, no matter who the president is. "
Mitch McConnell
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" 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. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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" I'm optimistic that none of my members in the end want to be responsible for the status quo on Obamacare. "
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" We need to be honest with the public. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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" 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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Need
" 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. "
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" Nurses told my mother that I was going to be OK. They thought I could walk without a limp and without a brace. And we stopped in a shoe store on the way home and bought a pair of low-top saddle Oxford shoes, which was sort of a symbol that I was going to be a normal little boy. "
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" I want to reassure our NATO allies that if any of them get attacked, we'll be there to defend them. "
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" 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. "
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" I thought the Pence selection ought to reassure the right-of-center voters that a Trump administration would be a right-of-center administration. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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