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

Mitch McConnell

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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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" We all got here from somewhere else going back in our lineage. And I think these gratuitous attacks on Americans who got here recently or whose parents got here recently need to stop. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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" Syria and Iran have always had a pretty tight relationship, and it looks to me like they just cooked up a press release to put out to sort of restate the obvious. They're both problem countries; we know that. And this doesn't change anything. "

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" The border is way more porous than it should be, and I think we'd be open to discussing anything that enhances border security. "

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" We're not gonna misread our mandate. "

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

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" As President Obama reminded us, we're all on one team. "

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" 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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" I'm not going to comment on White House personnel selections. "

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" It just doesn't occur to an American that someone else will solve their problems. Americans take pride in solving problems for themselves. And if we fail, we get back up and try again. It's what we do. It's who we are. "

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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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

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

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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" The implication here is that those who came to America legally over the years are somehow second-class citizens. "

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" Americans don't think we should be raising taxes on anybody, especially in the middle of a recession. "

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" As I've said repeatedly over the last few years, the war on coal was not a result of anything Congress passed; there was no legislation. "

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