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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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" 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

" 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. "

" The people who would call me an obstructionist overlook some inconvenient facts. "

Mitch McConnell

People

Facts

" If the idea behind Obamacare was to get everyone covered, that's one of the many failures. "

" 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. "

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

" It is time to move away from advise and obstruct and get back to advise and consent. "

" My wife came here at age 8 not speaking a word of English and ended up in the president's Cabinet. "

" While other state governments stiff their vendors, close parks, delay tax refunds, and ignore unacceptably poor service levels, Indiana state employees are setting national standards for efficiency. "

" The majority in the Senate is prepared to restore the Senate's traditions and precedents to ensure that regardless of party, any president's judicial nominees, after full and fair debate, receive a simple up-or-down vote on the Senate floor. "

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

Mitch McConnell

Myself

Speak

" The Senate is not the sort of place where instant gratification, I should say, is very likely. "

" I'm optimistic that none of my members in the end want to be responsible for the status quo on Obamacare. "

" 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. "

" 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

" I always think a debt ceiling is a good tool to carry something. "

" You can give to Americans for Prosperity or something else - a variety of different ways to push back against the party of government. "

" No matter how unusual a personality may be who gets elected to office, there are constraints in this country. You don't get to do anything you want to. So I'm very optimistic about America. "

" So in the House and Senate, we own the budget. So what does that mean? That means that we can pass the spending bill. "

" No matter what a candidate for president may say during the campaign, once someone is sworn in, they are constrained by the Constitution - about what the Constitution allows and doesn't allow, what the law allows and doesn't allow. "

" Mitt Romney has never been resigned to what someone else said was possible. He cut his own path. That's why he believes in his heart that America has a future full of opportunity and hope. And that's why when Mitt Romney looks down the road, he sees a country that's ready for a comeback. "

" 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. "

" Do we need to tighten restrictions on people coming into the country? I think there's a good argument for that, but a kind of broad ban is a bad idea, and, of course, many American Muslims are great sources of information as we seek to look for domestic folks who might be engaged in trying to promote terrorist activities. "

" America being a force is a lot more than building up the Defense Department. "

Mitch McConnell

Force

Defense

" It took us in this country 11 years to get from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "