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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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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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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 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 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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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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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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