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Mitch McConnell
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: February 20
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Judge
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United States Senator
Sheffield
Alabama
Addison Mitchell McConnell
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Addison Mitchell McConnell Jr.
Addison Mitchell McConnell III
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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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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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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 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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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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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 money that goes into Social Security is not the government's money. it's your money. You paid for it.
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America is about to turn the page on Barack Obama's four-year experiment in big government.
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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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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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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 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 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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For everybody who thinks it's warming, I can find somebody who thinks it isn't.
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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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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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The worst day of my political life was when President George W. Bush signed McCain-Feingold into law.
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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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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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