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" My first memory in life was my last visit to Warm Springs. "
Mitch McConnell
Life
First
Warm
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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
" 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
" To call this a recovery is an insult to recoveries. "
Mitch McConnell
Insult
Call
Recovery
" I think we need to respect the wishes of voters. They have been busily at work making these decisions in primary after primary after primary. "
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Work
Decisions
Need
" Personally criticizing a member of my staff hardly seemed like the way to negotiate a deal. "
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Way
Personally
Like
" 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
" 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. "
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Political
Work
Good
" 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
" 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
" I don't think there should be a litmus test on judges, no matter who the president is. "
Mitch McConnell
Judges
Matter
Test
" I only talk to the press if it's to my advantage. "
Mitch McConnell
Only
Press
Talk
" I believe that marriage should be between one man and one woman. "
Mitch McConnell
Man
Marriage
Woman
" The implication here is that those who came to America legally over the years are somehow second-class citizens. "
Mitch McConnell
Over
America
Citizens
" 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
" I try to appeal to all Kentucky voters, regardless of gender, about the future of state. "
Mitch McConnell
Future
Kentucky
Voters
" 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
" 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
" Only one thing can save this country, and that's to get a handle on this deficit and debt issue. "
Mitch McConnell
Handle
Save
Country
" Are we still a country that takes risks, that innovates, that believes anything is possible? Or are we a country that is resigned to whatever liberty the government decides to dish out? "
Mitch McConnell
Liberty
Country
Government
" If the idea behind Obamacare was to get everyone covered, that's one of the many failures. "
Mitch McConnell
Idea
Everyone
Get
" America is about to turn the page on Barack Obama's four-year experiment in big government. "
Mitch McConnell
America
Page
Government
" We all know that Social Security is one of this country's greatest success stories in the 20th century. "
Mitch McConnell
Success
Security
Social
" After 1994, the public had the impression we Republicans overpromised and underdelivered. "
Mitch McConnell
Had
Republicans
Public
" I'm not going to critique every utterance of the president. "
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Critique
Going
Every
" The country is yearning for a change. I'd rather take my chances on somebody new, particularly with regard to the Supreme Court. "
Mitch McConnell
Supreme Court
Country
Change
" We did the two-year extension of Bush tax cuts in 2010. We negotiated the Budget Control Act in August of 2011 and the fiscal cliff deal at the end of 2012, which saved 99 percent of Americans from a tax increase. "
Mitch McConnell
Budget
Control
Cliff
" The money that goes into Social Security is not the government's money. it's your money. You paid for it. "
Mitch McConnell
Money
Security
You
" 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
" 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. "
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Government
Vision
Change
" We need to bear in mind that we don't have religious tests in this country, and we also need to remember that some of our best allies in the war against Islamic terrorism are Muslims. "
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Country
Mind
Need