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It took us in this country 11 years to get from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution.

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Mitch McConnell
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: February 20
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United States Senator
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Alabama
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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It seems with every new day, we have a new veto threat from the president.
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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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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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Public disclosure of campaign contributions and spending should be expedited so voters can judge for themselves what is appropriate.
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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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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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America is about to turn the page on Barack Obama's four-year experiment in big government.
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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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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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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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The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.
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The new troops in Iraq need to be Iraqi troops.
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