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" 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. "

Mitch McConnell

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

" We need to be honest with the public. "

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

" I don't think there is any equivalency between the way the Russians conduct themselves and the way the United States does. "

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

" It's time Congress got its priorities straight. "

" I certainly would like to see the war on coal come to an end. "

" Things happen in American politics in the political center. If the President will meet us in the center, there are things we can accomplish. "

" 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. "

" Bolton's exactly what the U.N. needs at this point. The president's right on the mark in picking him. "

" I think the important thing to remember here is that we haven't been attacked again at home since September of 2001. "

" The administration still wants to govern from the far-left and that's going to produce kind a partisan result here in the Congress. "

" The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice. "