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" We're not Democrats first. We're not Republicans first. We're Americans first. We're patriots first. "
Mitch McConnell
First
Democrats
Republicans
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" The people who would call me an obstructionist overlook some inconvenient facts. "
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People
Me
Facts
" 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. "
Mitch McConnell
Year
Bad
End
" 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
More
Border
" Personally criticizing a member of my staff hardly seemed like the way to negotiate a deal. "
Mitch McConnell
Way
Personally
Like
" 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
" Americans don't think we should be raising taxes on anybody, especially in the middle of a recession. "
Mitch McConnell
Recession
Anybody
Think
" 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. "
Mitch McConnell
Congress
Result
Said
" So in the House and Senate, we own the budget. So what does that mean? That means that we can pass the spending bill. "
Mitch McConnell
Own
Pass
Senate
" I think I'd like to be an owner of a Major League Baseball team. "
Mitch McConnell
I Think
Think
Team
" The White House has a choice: They can change course, or they can double down on a vision of government that the American people have roundly rejected. "
Mitch McConnell
Government
Vision
Change
" 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
" 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. "
Mitch McConnell
American
Think
Republican
" America's a land of second opportunities. "
Mitch McConnell
Land
America
Second
" It is time to move away from advise and obstruct and get back to advise and consent. "
Mitch McConnell
Get
Time
Away
" 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
" 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. "
Mitch McConnell
Mother
Home
Boy
" 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. "
Mitch McConnell
You
Personality
Country
" We all know that Social Security is one of this country's greatest success stories in the 20th century. "
Mitch McConnell
Success
Security
Social
" After 1994, the public had the impression we Republicans overpromised and underdelivered. "
Mitch McConnell
Had
Republicans
Public
" I only talk to the press if it's to my advantage. "
Mitch McConnell
Only
Press
Talk
" President Obama had two Supreme Court nominees in his first term. There was no filibuster against them. "
Mitch McConnell
First
Had
Supreme Court
" The Senate is not the sort of place where instant gratification, I should say, is very likely. "
Mitch McConnell
Where
Senate
Gratification
" It is a president's constitutional right to nominate a Supreme Court justice, and it is the Senate's constitutional right to act as a check on a president and withhold its consent. "
Mitch McConnell
Supreme Court
Right
Justice
" 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. "
Mitch McConnell
Say
Matter
Law
" 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
" 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
" Back during the campaign, there were a lot of questions: Is Trump really a conservative? A lot of questions about it. "
Mitch McConnell
Conservative
Back
Campaign
" The Russians are clearly a big adversary, and they demonstrated it by trying to mess around in our election. "
Mitch McConnell
Trying
Mess
Election
" 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
" NATO is the most important military alliance in world history. "
Mitch McConnell
Important
History
Military