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" President Obama had two Supreme Court nominees in his first term. There was no filibuster against them. "

Mitch McConnell

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

Mitch McConnell

" 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

" 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

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

Mitch McConnell

" A reporter asked recently, 'What keeps you up at night?' I replied that I generally sleep well, but if I ever do have trouble, I don't have to count sheep. I count all the states I'm glad I'm not the governor of. "

Mitch McConnell

" Americans are too speedy. "

Mitch McConnell

" 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

" America is about to turn the page on Barack Obama's four-year experiment in big government. "

Mitch McConnell

" For four years, Barack Obama has been running from the nation's problems. He hasn't been working to earn reelection. He's been working to earn a spot on the PGA tour. "

Mitch McConnell

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

Mitch McConnell

" Putin is a former KGB agent. He's a thug. He was not elected in a way that most people would consider a credible election. "

Mitch McConnell

" 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. "

Mitch McConnell

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

Mitch McConnell

" 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. "

Mitch McConnell

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

Mitch McConnell

" The money that goes into Social Security is not the government's money. it's your money. You paid for it. "

Mitch McConnell

" 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. "

Mitch McConnell

" I'm against lifting any sanctions on the Russians. "

Mitch McConnell

" If the administration wants cooperation, it will have to begin to move in our direction. "

Mitch McConnell

" 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. "

Mitch McConnell

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

Mitch McConnell

" 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. "

Mitch McConnell

" Our nation has a regrettable history of drawing down our forces and readiness after each conflict, only to find ourselve ill-prepared for the next great struggle. "

Mitch McConnell

" If there's any country in the world that doesn't deserve sanctions relief, it's Russia. "

Mitch McConnell

" We're not Democrats first. We're not Republicans first. We're Americans first. We're patriots first. "

Mitch McConnell

" By their own admission, leaders of the Republican Revolution of 1994 think their greatest mistake was overlooking the power of the veto. They gave the impression they were somehow in charge when they weren't. "

Mitch McConnell

" The fact is, if our primary legislative goals are to repeal and replace the health spending bill; to end the bailouts; cut spending; and shrink the size and scope of government, the only way to do all these things it is to put someone in the White House who won't veto any of these things. "

Mitch McConnell

" Personally criticizing a member of my staff hardly seemed like the way to negotiate a deal. "

Mitch McConnell

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

Mitch McConnell

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

Mitch McConnell