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" I think it's a time to be sad about what's been done to the United States Senate, the greatest deliberative body in the world. "
Mitch McConnell
World
Done
Body
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" 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
" 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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Mother
Home
Boy
" The American people gave us a new majority in 2014. "
Mitch McConnell
Majority
American
Us
" 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. "
Mitch McConnell
Morning
Job
Father
" It's time Congress got its priorities straight. "
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Congress
Time
Priorities
" Bills should go through committee. "
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Should
Through
Go
" 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
" I think the important thing to remember here is that we haven't been attacked again at home since September of 2001. "
Mitch McConnell
Important
Here
Home
" 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. "
Mitch McConnell
Parents
Back
Going
" Mitt Romney has spent his entire life finding ways to solve problems. "
Mitch McConnell
Life
Problems
Ways
" The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice. "
Mitch McConnell
People
American
Court
" 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. "
Mitch McConnell
Back
Problems
Someone
" 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
" 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. "
Mitch McConnell
Years
Big
Three
" I don't think it's all that unusual for a new president to want to get along with the Russians. I remember George W. Bush having the same hope. "
Mitch McConnell
Hope
Think
Want
" I don't think there is any equivalency between the way the Russians conduct themselves and the way the United States does. "
Mitch McConnell
Does
Way
United States
" 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
" So in the House and Senate, we own the budget. So what does that mean? That means that we can pass the spending bill. "
Mitch McConnell
Own
Pass
Senate
" 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
" I'm optimistic that none of my members in the end want to be responsible for the status quo on Obamacare. "
Mitch McConnell
Status Quo
Want
None
" I try to appeal to all Kentucky voters, regardless of gender, about the future of state. "
Mitch McConnell
Future
Kentucky
Voters
" I'm not going to comment on White House personnel selections. "
Mitch McConnell
White House
White
House
" Let me speak for myself: The Russians are not our friends. "
Mitch McConnell
Myself
Speak
Me
" We need to say to everyone on Election Day, 'Those of you who helped make this a good day, you need to go out and help us finish the job.' "
Mitch McConnell
Job
Election
Good
" We all know that Social Security is one of this country's greatest success stories in the 20th century. "
Mitch McConnell
Success
Security
Social
" 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. "
Mitch McConnell
Political
Work
Good
" Almost never does a candidate with high negatives have much of a coattail effect. "
Mitch McConnell
Much
Never
Almost
" For four years, Barack Obama has been running from the nation's problems. He hasn't been working to earn reelection. He's been working to earn a spot on the PGA tour. "
Mitch McConnell
Problems
Running
Working
" 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
" Things happen in American politics in the political center. If the President will meet us in the center, there are things we can accomplish. "
Mitch McConnell
Meet
Political
Politics