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" 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. "

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

Mitch McConnell

Supreme Court

Country

Change

" You can give to Americans for Prosperity or something else - a variety of different ways to push back against the party of government. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I'm not going to critique every utterance of the president. "

" I don't think there is any equivalency between the way the Russians conduct themselves and the way the United States does. "

" I'm optimistic that none of my members in the end want to be responsible for the status quo on Obamacare. "

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

Mitch McConnell

Security

Border

" My wife came here at age 8 not speaking a word of English and ended up in the president's Cabinet. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" To call this a recovery is an insult to recoveries. "

" 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. "

" No matter how unusual a personality may be who gets elected to office, there are constraints in this country. You don't get to do anything you want to. So I'm very optimistic about America. "

" 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. "

" The greatest way to ensure stability in our laws is to ensure that everyone has an opportunity to participate in some way in the passage. "

" 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. "

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

" Are we still a country that takes risks, that innovates, that believes anything is possible? Or are we a country that is resigned to whatever liberty the government decides to dish out? "

" 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. "

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

Mitch McConnell

Team

President

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I believe that marriage should be between one man and one woman. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "