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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. "
Mitch McConnell
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" 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
Work
Hard Work
School
" If there's any country in the world that doesn't deserve sanctions relief, it's Russia. "
Mitch McConnell
Russia
Country
Deserve
" 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. "
Mitch McConnell
Employees
Ignore
Service
" I thought the Pence selection ought to reassure the right-of-center voters that a Trump administration would be a right-of-center administration. "
Mitch McConnell
Administration
Would
Voters
" 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. "
Mitch McConnell
Political
Work
Good
" We did the two-year extension of Bush tax cuts in 2010. We negotiated the Budget Control Act in August of 2011 and the fiscal cliff deal at the end of 2012, which saved 99 percent of Americans from a tax increase. "
Mitch McConnell
Budget
Control
Cliff
" We're not gonna misread our mandate. "
Mitch McConnell
Gonna
Mandate
Our
" I'm not going to critique every utterance of the president. "
Mitch McConnell
Critique
Going
Every
" 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
Own
Think
Revolution
" Americans are too speedy. "
Mitch McConnell
Speedy
Too
" More young people believe they'll see a U.F.O. than that they'll see their own Social Security benefits. "
Mitch McConnell
Security
Believe
Own
" 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. "
Mitch McConnell
Suffering
Friends
Early
" The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice. "
Mitch McConnell
People
American
Court
" 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. "
Mitch McConnell
Know
Change
Me
" We need to bear in mind that we don't have religious tests in this country, and we also need to remember that some of our best allies in the war against Islamic terrorism are Muslims. "
Mitch McConnell
Country
Mind
Need
" America being a force is a lot more than building up the Defense Department. "
Mitch McConnell
Force
Defense
More
" 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. "
Mitch McConnell
Great
Think
People
" I don't think there is any equivalency between the way the Russians conduct themselves and the way the United States does. "
Mitch McConnell
Does
Way
United States
" 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
Years
Big
Three
" 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
Change
Need
Security
" I think we know enough now to know that Donald Trump is doing the same kinds of things that Jeb Bush would have done or Marco Rubio would have done or Mitt Romney would have done. "
Mitch McConnell
Enough
Know
Think
" America's a land of second opportunities. "
Mitch McConnell
Land
America
Second
" My wife came here at age 8 not speaking a word of English and ended up in the president's Cabinet. "
Mitch McConnell
President
Here
Wife
" If the idea behind Obamacare was to get everyone covered, that's one of the many failures. "
Mitch McConnell
Idea
Everyone
Get
" People are genuinely excited about taking the country in another direction. "
Mitch McConnell
Excited
Direction
Country
" 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. "
Mitch McConnell
Special
Unique
America
" 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
Kind
Result
Here
" 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. "
Mitch McConnell
Hope
Think
Want
" I think it's a time to be sad about what's been done to the United States Senate, the greatest deliberative body in the world. "
Mitch McConnell
World
Done
Body
" It took us in this country 11 years to get from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution. "
Mitch McConnell
Constitution
History
Independence