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" The majority in the Senate is prepared to restore the Senate's traditions and precedents to ensure that regardless of party, any president's judicial nominees, after full and fair debate, receive a simple up-or-down vote on the Senate floor. "

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" 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. "

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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. "

" We need to be honest with the public. "

" I just want to remind everybody that this is an extraordinarily resilient country we live in. "

" Our friends on the other side decided early on they didn't want to engage with us in a serious way, a serious way to help those suffering under Obamacare. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Mitt Romney has spent his entire life finding ways to solve problems. "

" My job is to try to protect jobs in Kentucky now, not speculate about science in the future. "

" After 1994, the public had the impression we Republicans overpromised and underdelivered. "

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

" The country is yearning for a change. I'd rather take my chances on somebody new, particularly with regard to the Supreme Court. "

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

" 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. "

" What will happen is the bills will start out the way we like them; in order to move them - we'll probably have to make compromises. That's the way the legislative process works when it's functioning. "

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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. "

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

" We hear the stories every day now: the father who puts on a suit every morning and leaves the house so his daughter doesn't know he lost his job, the recent college grad facing up to the painful reality that the only door that's open to her after four years of study and a pile of debt is her parents'. These are the faces of the Obama economy. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I want to reassure our NATO allies that if any of them get attacked, we'll be there to defend them. "

" I thought the Pence selection ought to reassure the right-of-center voters that a Trump administration would be a right-of-center administration. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" My first memory in life was my last visit to Warm Springs. "