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Mitch McConnell
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: February 20
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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 the important thing to remember here is that we haven't been attacked again at home since September of 2001.
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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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Obama hasn't been working to earn reelection, he's been working to earn a spot on the PGA tour!
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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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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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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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It seems with every new day, we have a new veto threat from the president.
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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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I've often wished we had more women in the Senate.
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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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Tiger Woods and John Edwards had a better year than the stimulus bill.
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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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For everybody who thinks it's warming, I can find somebody who thinks it isn't.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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