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" I just want to remind everybody that this is an extraordinarily resilient country we live in. "
Mitch McConnell
Want
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" I'm against lifting any sanctions on the Russians. "
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Sanctions
Against
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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. "
Mitch McConnell
Special
Unique
America
" I ran for president of the student council at my high school in Louisville. And ran against a guy who I thought was better known and little bit better student and managed to win. "
Mitch McConnell
High
Thought
School
" 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. "
Mitch McConnell
Health
White
Goals
" 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
" The border is way more porous than it should be, and I think we'd be open to discussing anything that enhances border security. "
Mitch McConnell
Security
More
Border
" 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
" 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. "
Mitch McConnell
Process
Move
Like
" The implication here is that those who came to America legally over the years are somehow second-class citizens. "
Mitch McConnell
Over
America
Citizens
" 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. "
Mitch McConnell
Work
Hard Work
School
" I think I'd like to be an owner of a Major League Baseball team. "
Mitch McConnell
I Think
Think
Team
" Almost never does a candidate with high negatives have much of a coattail effect. "
Mitch McConnell
Much
Never
Almost
" America's a land of second opportunities. "
Mitch McConnell
Land
America
Second
" Mitt Romney has spent his entire life finding ways to solve problems. "
Mitch McConnell
Life
Problems
Ways
" The worst day of my political life was when President George W. Bush signed McCain-Feingold into law in the early part of his first administration. "
Mitch McConnell
Political
Life
Worst
" It is time for a leader who will lead. "
Mitch McConnell
Who
Will
Time
" The new troops in Iraq need to be Iraqi troops. "
Mitch McConnell
Iraqi
Troops
New
" 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
" We need to strengthen and save Social Security for today's workers. If we don't act now, this system, born out of the New Deal, will become a bad deal. "
Mitch McConnell
Need
Born
Bad
" America being a force is a lot more than building up the Defense Department. "
Mitch McConnell
Force
Defense
More
" 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. "
Mitch McConnell
Say
Think
White
" 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
" The bill that job creators and out-of-work Americans need us to pass is the one that ensures taxes won't go up - one that says Americans and small-business owners won't get hit with more bad news at the end of the year. "
Mitch McConnell
Year
Bad
End
" I believe that marriage should be between one man and one woman. "
Mitch McConnell
Man
Marriage
Woman
" The debt they ran up in the first year of the Obama administration is bigger than the last four years of the Bush combined. "
Mitch McConnell
Debt
Bigger
First
" Our nation has a regrettable history of drawing down our forces and readiness after each conflict, only to find ourselve ill-prepared for the next great struggle. "
Mitch McConnell
Great
Struggle
Conflict
" 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
" 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. "
Mitch McConnell
Military
Diplomacy
Think
" My job is to try to protect jobs in Kentucky now, not speculate about science in the future. "
Mitch McConnell
Protect
Now
Try
" I only talk to the press if it's to my advantage. "
Mitch McConnell
Only
Press
Talk