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" The debt they ran up in the first year of the Obama administration is bigger than the last four years of the Bush combined. "
Mitch McConnell
Debt
Bigger
First
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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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" Back during the campaign, there were a lot of questions: Is Trump really a conservative? A lot of questions about it. "
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" If there's any country in the world that doesn't deserve sanctions relief, it's Russia. "
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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 ran for president of the student council at my high school in Louisville. And ran against a guy who I thought was better known and little bit better student and managed to win. "
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" Almost without exception, President Obama begins serious policy discussions by explaining why everyone else is wrong. After he assigns straw men to your views, he enthusiastically attempts to knock them down with a theatrically earnest re-litigation of what you've missed about his brilliance. "
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" I think I'd like to be an owner of a Major League Baseball team. "
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" It's time Congress got its priorities straight. "
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" My job is to try to protect jobs in Kentucky now, not speculate about science in the future. "
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Now
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" The Senate is not the sort of place where instant gratification, I should say, is very likely. "
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" More young people believe they'll see a U.F.O. than that they'll see their own Social Security benefits. "
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Believe
Own
" Things happen in American politics in the political center. If the President will meet us in the center, there are things we can accomplish. "
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Political
Politics
" I always think a debt ceiling is a good tool to carry something. "
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Tool
Always
Carry
" The administration still wants to govern from the far-left and that's going to produce kind a partisan result here in the Congress. "
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Kind
Result
Here
" 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. "
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Need
Born
Bad
" We need to say to everyone on Election Day, 'Those of you who helped make this a good day, you need to go out and help us finish the job.' "
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Job
Election
Good
" 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. "
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Hope
Future
Heart
" 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. "
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People
Win
You
" Trump was able to convey - oddly enough a message from a billionaire who lives in Manhattan - a genuine concern for people who felt kind of left off, who felt offended by all the political correctness they see around them. "
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Political
People
" Personally criticizing a member of my staff hardly seemed like the way to negotiate a deal. "
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Personally
Like
" 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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American
Think
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" Let me speak for myself: The Russians are not our friends. "
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Speak
Me
" 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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" If the idea behind Obamacare was to get everyone covered, that's one of the many failures. "
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Everyone
Get
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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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" I don't think it's all that unusual for a new president to want to get along with the Russians. I remember George W. Bush having the same hope. "
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Hope
Think
Want
" 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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" Everybody has barriers to overcome, some more than others. I don't want to act like I'm all that unique. America's full of stories like mine. This is a special country with enormous opportunity for those who don't quit. "
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Special
Unique
America