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" The American people gave us a new majority in 2014. "
Mitch McConnell
Majority
American
Us
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" The people who would call me an obstructionist overlook some inconvenient facts. "
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" America's a land of second opportunities. "
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" Nurses told my mother that I was going to be OK. They thought I could walk without a limp and without a brace. And we stopped in a shoe store on the way home and bought a pair of low-top saddle Oxford shoes, which was sort of a symbol that I was going to be a normal little boy. "
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" We're a country of five-second sound bites and 30-second commercials. Eight years of one person is just too much. "
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" Personally criticizing a member of my staff hardly seemed like the way to negotiate a deal. "
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" I try to appeal to all Kentucky voters, regardless of gender, about the future of state. "
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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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" After 1994, the public had the impression we Republicans overpromised and underdelivered. "
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" I'm not going to critique every utterance of the president. "
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Every
" 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 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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Need
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" I don't want to sound like a whiner here, but if you get beat up all the time, it affects you. "
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Time
Want
Beat
" To call this a recovery is an insult to recoveries. "
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Call
Recovery
" My first memory in life was my last visit to Warm Springs. "
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Life
First
Warm
" The debt they ran up in the first year of the Obama administration is bigger than the last four years of the Bush combined. "
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Debt
Bigger
First
" 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. "
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Years
Big
Three
" America being a force is a lot more than building up the Defense Department. "
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Force
Defense
More
" We're not gonna misread our mandate. "
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Gonna
Mandate
Our
" 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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Here
Home
" 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. "
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Own
Think
Revolution
" 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. "
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Know
Better
" People are genuinely excited about taking the country in another direction. "
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Excited
Direction
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" It's time Congress got its priorities straight. "
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Congress
Time
Priorities
" Let me speak for myself: The Russians are not our friends. "
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Speak
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" 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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" I want to reassure our NATO allies that if any of them get attacked, we'll be there to defend them. "
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NATO
Allies
" The money that goes into Social Security is not the government's money. it's your money. You paid for it. "
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Money
Security
You
" 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. "
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" Almost never does a candidate with high negatives have much of a coattail effect. "
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