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Mitch McConnell
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: February 20
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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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Tiger Woods and John Edwards had a better year than the stimulus bill.
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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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The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.
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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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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?
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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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The money that goes into Social Security is not the government's money. it's your money. You paid for it.
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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.
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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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It seems with every new day, we have a new veto threat from the president.
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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.
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Forcing free market plans to compete with these government-run programs would create an unlevel playing field and inevitably doom true competition.
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For four years, Americans have waited for the faintest light to flicker at the end of the tunnel. And this President has let them down again and again and again. It is time to move on. It is time for a leader who will lead. That leader is Mitt Romney.
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I've often wished we had more women in the Senate.
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The worst day of my political life was when President George W. Bush signed McCain-Feingold into law.
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We have a debt the size of our economy, which makes us look a lot like Greece.
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I think the important thing to remember here is that we haven't been attacked again at home since September of 2001.
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As the leader of the Republicans what I'm telling that we elected the president to be president. It's time for him to step up to the plate and lead us in the direction of reducing our excessive spending.
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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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