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" 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

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" My job is to try to protect jobs in Kentucky now, not speculate about science in the future. "

" 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. "

" We're living under the Obama economy. Any CEO in America with a record like this after three years on the job would be graciously shown the door. This president blames the managers instead. He blames the folks on the shop floor. He blames the weather. "

" 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. "

" I try to appeal to all Kentucky voters, regardless of gender, about the future of state. "

" We all got here from somewhere else going back in our lineage. And I think these gratuitous attacks on Americans who got here recently or whose parents got here recently need to stop. "

" We're not gonna misread our mandate. "

" 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. "

" The American people gave us a new majority in 2014. "

Mitch McConnell

Majority

American

" I don't think there should be a litmus test on judges, no matter who the president is. "

" It is time for a leader who will lead. "

" 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. "

" Americans are too speedy. "

Mitch McConnell

Speedy

Too

" 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. "

" What I have said is, when the American people elect divided government, what are they saying? I think they're saying we know you have differences of opinion on big things. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" As President Obama reminded us, we're all on one team. "

Mitch McConnell

Team

President

" The debt they ran up in the first year of the Obama administration is bigger than the last four years of the Bush combined. "

" The money that goes into Social Security is not the government's money. it's your money. You paid for it. "

" We're not Democrats first. We're not Republicans first. We're Americans first. We're patriots first. "

" 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. "

" Let me speak for myself: The Russians are not our friends. "

Mitch McConnell

Myself

Speak

" 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. "

" After 1994, the public had the impression we Republicans overpromised and underdelivered. "