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The new troops in Iraq need to be Iraqi troops.

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Mitch McConnell
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: February 20
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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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This heinous crime should be of particular concern to all of us. . . . I know my colleagues will agree that the murder of Americans overseas cannot go unpunished. I will continue to closely follow developments in this case[.]
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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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For everybody who thinks it's warming, I can find somebody who thinks it isn't.
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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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Public disclosure of campaign contributions and spending should be expedited so voters can judge for themselves what is appropriate.
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What we do know is that the American people, regardless of how they feel about the abortion issue, don't think that taxpayer money ought to be used to pay for abortions.
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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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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.
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I've often wished we had more women in the Senate.
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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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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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It's a shame that the president doesn't embrace the effort to reduce spending. None of us like using situations like the sequester or the debt ceiling or the operation of government to try to engage the president to deal with this.
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I'm really proud of this Supreme Court and the way they've been dealing with the issue of First Amendment political speech.
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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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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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The minimum wage is mostly an entry-level wage for young people.
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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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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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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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