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Mitch McConnell
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: February 20
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More young people believe they'll see a U.F.O. than that they'll see their own Social Security benefits.
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I think some of our members may have thought the default issue was a hostage you might take a chance at shooting. Most of us didn’t think that. What we did learn is this - it’s a hostage that’s worth ransoming. And it focuses the Congress on something that must be done.
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For everybody who thinks it's warming, I can find somebody who thinks it isn't.
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We didn't make much progress on the country's agenda. And in my view it's because the Senate basically hadn't done much of anything, with a couple of exceptions, for the last four years [of Barack Obama's presidency]. And that's going to change.
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If you believe one of the biggest problems confronting the country is overregulation by this administration, the single most effective way to begin to rein in the aggressive regulators, who in my view have done great damage to this economy, is in the bills that fund the regulators.
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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.
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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.
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I don't think there's any equivalency between the way that the Russians conduct themselves and the way the United States does.
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The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.
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It seems with every new day, we have a new veto threat from the president.
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Obama hasn't been working to earn reelection, he's been working to earn a spot on the PGA tour!
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I think it is to the advantage of my state to have the opportunity to come to meetings occasionally and to vote in person, rather than just by proxy.
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The biggest problem confronting the country is our excessive spending. If we're not going to deal with it now, when are we going to deal with it? And we've watched the government explode over the last four years. We've dealt with the revenue issue.
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Tiger Woods and John Edwards had a better year than the stimulus bill.
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Public disclosure of campaign contributions and spending should be expedited so voters can judge for themselves what is appropriate.
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All Citizens United did was to level the playing field for corporate speech. We now have, I think, the most free and open system we've had in modern times.
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The administration still wants to govern from the far-left and that's going to produce kind a partisan result here in the Congress.
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It's important to remember that some of our best sources in the war against radical Islamic terrorism are Muslims, both in America and overseas.
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We certainly will have a vote on proceeding to a bill to repeal Obamacare... it was a very large issue in the campaign. And, the reconciliation process does present an opportunity and we're reviewing that to see what's possible through reconciliation.
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I've often wished we had more women in the Senate.
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