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" You know, 'Professor Obama' has been a label applied to him by Republicans and Democrats alike. He's a very smart guy. But I think he'd be, you know, better served not to spend so much time trying to impress us with his particular position on an issue and understand that there are things upon which we simply have a disagreement. "

Mitch McConnell

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

" If there's any country in the world that doesn't deserve sanctions relief, it's Russia. "

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" Some contend that, by fulfilling our promise to the American people, we're somehow trying to go back to the way things were before ObamaCare - which we all know is untrue. "

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