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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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Mitch McConnell
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: February 20
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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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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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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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The worst day of my political life was when President George W. Bush signed McCain-Feingold into law.
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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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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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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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It seems with every new day, we have a new veto threat from the president.
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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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It took us in this country 11 years to get from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution.
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Sometime in the near future we'll have a vote on repealing Obamacare, essentially the same vote that we had in 2015. I would remind everyone that in that proposal there's a two-year delay, a two-year delay which would give us the opportunity to work out a complete replacement on a bipartisan basis with our Democratic friends.
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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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Tiger Woods and John Edwards had a better year than the stimulus bill.
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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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The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.
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And this year, when we end the cruel, defeatist practice of passing children who cannot read into fourth grade, and when our most diligent students begin to graduate from high school in 11 years, and get a head start on college costs with the dollars they earned through their hard work, others will take notice of Indiana yet again.
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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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America is about to turn the page on Barack Obama's four-year experiment in big government.
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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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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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