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Mitch McConnell
1942 • American • Politician
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Showing 60 quotesWe'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.— Mitch McConnell
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
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
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.— Mitch McConnell
If the administration wants cooperation, it will have to begin to move in our direction.— Mitch McConnell
Americans don't think we should be raising taxes on anybody, especially in the middle of a recession.— Mitch McConnell
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.— Mitch McConnell
The debt they ran up in the first year of the Obama administration is bigger than the last four years of the Bush combined.— Mitch McConnell
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
I think the important thing to remember here is that we haven't been attacked again at home since September of 2001.— Mitch McConnell
More young people believe they'll see a U.F.O. than that they'll see their own Social Security benefits.— Mitch McConnell
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.— Mitch McConnell
We all know that Social Security is one of this country's greatest success stories in the 20th century.— Mitch McConnell
A lot of us were wondering, what is Trump really going to be like? He used to support Democrats and have various views earlier in his life about politics.— Mitch McConnell
Bolton's exactly what the U.N. needs at this point. The president's right on the mark in picking him.— Mitch McConnell
I want to reassure our NATO allies that if any of them get attacked, we'll be there to defend them.— Mitch McConnell