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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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Mitch McConnell
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: February 20
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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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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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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 single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.
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I've often wished we had more women in the Senate.
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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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The worst day of my political life was when President George W. Bush signed McCain-Feingold into law.
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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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We have a debt the size of our economy, which makes us look a lot like Greece.
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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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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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Obama hasn't been working to earn reelection, he's been working to earn a spot on the PGA tour!
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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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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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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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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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We all know that Social Security is one of this country's greatest success stories in the 20th century.
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The minimum wage is mostly an entry-level wage for young people.
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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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