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" 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. "
Mitch McConnell
People
Win
You
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" If the idea behind Obamacare was to get everyone covered, that's one of the many failures. "
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" Let me speak for myself: The Russians are not our friends. "
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" People are genuinely excited about taking the country in another direction. "
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" The country doesn't need saving. "
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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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Diplomacy
Think
" 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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Bigger
First
" 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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Friends
Early
" 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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Boy
" We're a country of five-second sound bites and 30-second commercials. Eight years of one person is just too much. "
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Country
Person
" Mitt Romney has spent his entire life finding ways to solve problems. "
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Problems
Ways
" 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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Enough
Know
Think
" The Senate is allowed to work the way it was designed to - meaning a place where nothing is decided without a good dose of deliberation and debate, as well as input from both the majority and minority parties - it arrives at a result that is acceptable to people all along the political spectrum. "
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Political
Work
Good
" 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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Would
Voters
" We're not Democrats first. We're not Republicans first. We're Americans first. We're patriots first. "
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First
Democrats
Republicans
" I'm against lifting any sanctions on the Russians. "
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Sanctions
Against
Lifting
" The greatest way to ensure stability in our laws is to ensure that everyone has an opportunity to participate in some way in the passage. "
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Everyone
Opportunity
Stability
" The money that goes into Social Security is not the government's money. it's your money. You paid for it. "
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Money
Security
You
" America being a force is a lot more than building up the Defense Department. "
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Defense
More
" 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. "
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Most
Way
Thug
" 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. "
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Know
Change
Me
" I think the important thing to remember here is that we haven't been attacked again at home since September of 2001. "
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Here
Home
" I don't think there should be a litmus test on judges, no matter who the president is. "
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Matter
Test
" 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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Like
" The implication here is that those who came to America legally over the years are somehow second-class citizens. "
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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. "
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Back
Campaign
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America
Second
" More young people believe they'll see a U.F.O. than that they'll see their own Social Security benefits. "
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Believe
Own