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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. "
Mitch McConnell
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" The country is yearning for a change. I'd rather take my chances on somebody new, particularly with regard to the Supreme Court. "
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Supreme Court
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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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" 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. "
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Back
Problems
Someone
" 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. "
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Years
Big
Three
" 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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Security
Believe
Own
" If the administration wants cooperation, it will have to begin to move in our direction. "
Mitch McConnell
Move
Will
Our
" Back during the campaign, there were a lot of questions: Is Trump really a conservative? A lot of questions about it. "
Mitch McConnell
Conservative
Back
Campaign
" Bills should go through committee. "
Mitch McConnell
Should
Through
Go
" The Frist fairness rule guarantees up-or-down votes for every circuit court or Supreme Court nomination, regardless of which party controls the Senate or the White House. "
Mitch McConnell
White
Party
Supreme Court
" After 1994, the public had the impression we Republicans overpromised and underdelivered. "
Mitch McConnell
Had
Republicans
Public
" 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. "
Mitch McConnell
Change
Need
Security
" 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
" America's a land of second opportunities. "
Mitch McConnell
Land
America
Second
" Today, Democrats not only have the White House; they have the Senate too. So we have to be realistic about what we can and cannot achieve, while at the same recognizing that realism should never be confused with capitulation. "
Mitch McConnell
Confused
Achieve
White
" I don't think there should be a litmus test on judges, no matter who the president is. "
Mitch McConnell
Judges
Matter
Test
" 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
" There is a lot of room for improvement in Social Security. We owe our children the most financially sound system possible. They will have paid into it their entire working lives. They deserve to be protected by it. for our children and grandchildren. "
Mitch McConnell
Improvement
Grandchildren
Children
" People are genuinely excited about taking the country in another direction. "
Mitch McConnell
Excited
Direction
Country
" NATO is the most important military alliance in world history. "
Mitch McConnell
Important
History
Military
" The new troops in Iraq need to be Iraqi troops. "
Mitch McConnell
Iraqi
Troops
New
" I always think a debt ceiling is a good tool to carry something. "
Mitch McConnell
Tool
Always
Carry
" 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
" 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
" Americans don't think we should be raising taxes on anybody, especially in the middle of a recession. "
Mitch McConnell
Recession
Anybody
Think
" 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. "
Mitch McConnell
Everyone
Opportunity
Stability
" 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 in any way think the American people rejected the Republican Party, or we'd be in a lot worse shape than we are. "
Mitch McConnell
American
Think
Republican
" 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
" 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