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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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Mitch McConnell
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: February 20
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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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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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We all know that Social Security is one of this country's greatest success stories in the 20th century.
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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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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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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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Public disclosure of campaign contributions and spending should be expedited so voters can judge for themselves what is appropriate.
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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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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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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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The new troops in Iraq need to be Iraqi troops.
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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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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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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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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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Tiger Woods and John Edwards had a better year than the stimulus bill.
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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 money that goes into Social Security is not the government's money. it's your money. You paid for it.
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I've often wished we had more women in the Senate.
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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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