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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. "

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" 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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" Diplomacy is important, extremely important, and I don't think these reductions at the State Department are appropriate because many times diplomacy is a lot more effective - and cert cheaper - than military engagement. "

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

" 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. "

" We need to be honest with the public. "

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

" A lot of us were wondering, what is Trump really going to be like? He used to support Democrats and have various views earlier in his life about politics. "

" 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. "

" The new troops in Iraq need to be Iraqi troops. "

" We're not gonna misread our mandate. "

" I believe that marriage should be between one man and one woman. "

" We're living under the Obama economy. Any CEO in America with a record like this after three years on the job would be graciously shown the door. This president blames the managers instead. He blames the folks on the shop floor. He blames the weather. "

" Bills should go through committee. "

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" 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. "

" 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 I'd like to be an owner of a Major League Baseball team. "

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

" 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? "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Only one thing can save this country, and that's to get a handle on this deficit and debt issue. "

" After adding trillions to the debt on big-government policies most Americans didn't ask for and which we couldn't afford, Democratic leaders say they need more money, which they intend to take from small business, even though small businesses create the majority of new jobs. "

" 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. "

" The bill that job creators and out-of-work Americans need us to pass is the one that ensures taxes won't go up - one that says Americans and small-business owners won't get hit with more bad news at the end of the year. "

" You know, 'Professor Obama' has been a label applied to him by Republicans and Democrats alike. He's a very smart guy. But I think he'd be, you know, better served not to spend so much time trying to impress us with his particular position on an issue and understand that there are things upon which we simply have a disagreement. "

" 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. "

" The debt they ran up in the first year of the Obama administration is bigger than the last four years of the Bush combined. "

" I hope in the end that people will remember what Reagan said: that if he could get 80 percent of what he wanted, you call it a win and move on. "

" The country doesn't need saving. "

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