Top 181 Quotes & Sayings by Mitch McConnell
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Last updated on September 17, 2024.
There is a lot of room for improvement in Social Security. We owe our children the most financially sound system possible. They will have paid into it their entire working lives. They deserve to be protected by it. for our children and grandchildren.
Personally criticizing a member of my staff hardly seemed like the way to negotiate a deal.
My view is that Trump will not change the Republican Party, America's right-of-center party. If he brings in new followers, that's great, and well worth the effort, but he will not change the Republican Party.
After 1994, the public had the impression we Republicans overpromised and underdelivered.
Diplomacy is important, extremely important, and I don't think these reductions at the State Department are appropriate because many times diplomacy is a lot more effective - and cert cheaper - than military engagement.
We need to say to everyone on Election Day, 'Those of you who helped make this a good day, you need to go out and help us finish the job.'
Americans are too speedy.
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.
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.
Americans don't think we should be raising taxes on anybody, especially in the middle of a recession.
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.
Putin is a former KGB agent. He's a thug. He was not elected in a way that most people would consider a credible election.
It took us in this country 11 years to get from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution.
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.
We're not gonna misread our mandate.
If the administration wants cooperation, it will have to begin to move in our direction.
Things happen in American politics in the political center. If the President will meet us in the center, there are things we can accomplish.
After adding trillions to the debt on big-government policies most Americans didn't ask for and which we couldn't afford, Democratic leaders say they need more money, which they intend to take from small business, even though small businesses create the majority of new jobs.
Mitt Romney has never been resigned to what someone else said was possible. He cut his own path. That's why he believes in his heart that America has a future full of opportunity and hope. And that's why when Mitt Romney looks down the road, he sees a country that's ready for a comeback.
Bills should go through committee.
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.
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.
The money that goes into Social Security is not the government's money. it's your money. You paid for it.
I don't want to sound like a whiner here, but if you get beat up all the time, it affects you.
My wife came here at age 8 not speaking a word of English and ended up in the president's Cabinet.
I want to reassure our NATO allies that if any of them get attacked, we'll be there to defend them.
We all know that Social Security is one of this country's greatest success stories in the 20th century.
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?
It just doesn't occur to an American that someone else will solve their problems. Americans take pride in solving problems for themselves. And if we fail, we get back up and try again. It's what we do. It's who we are.
Mitt Romney has spent his entire life finding ways to solve problems.
The country doesn't need saving.
More young people believe they'll see a U.F.O. than that they'll see their own Social Security benefits.
The administration still wants to govern from the far-left and that's going to produce kind a partisan result here in the Congress.
It is time to move away from advise and obstruct and get back to advise and consent.
We're a country of five-second sound bites and 30-second commercials. Eight years of one person is just too much.
It is time for a leader who will lead.
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.
The new troops in Iraq need to be Iraqi troops.
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 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.
To call this a recovery is an insult to recoveries.
I only talk to the press if it's to my advantage.
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.
Let me speak for myself: The Russians are not our friends.
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.
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.
It's time Congress got its priorities straight.
The debt they ran up in the first year of the Obama administration is bigger than the last four years of the Bush combined.
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.
Bolton's exactly what the U.N. needs at this point. The president's right on the mark in picking him.
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.
I think the important thing to remember here is that we haven't been attacked again at home since September of 2001.
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.
The Frist fairness rule guarantees up-or-down votes for every circuit court or Supreme Court nomination, regardless of which party controls the Senate or the White House.
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.
NATO is the most important military alliance in world history.
I'm against lifting any sanctions on the Russians.
America is about to turn the page on Barack Obama's four-year experiment in big government.
The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice.
The fact is, if our primary legislative goals are to repeal and replace the health spending bill; to end the bailouts; cut spending; and shrink the size and scope of government, the only way to do all these things it is to put someone in the White House who won't veto any of these things.
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