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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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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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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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Public disclosure of campaign contributions and spending should be expedited so voters can judge for themselves what is appropriate.
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For everybody who thinks it's warming, I can find somebody who thinks it isn't.
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It seems with every new day, we have a new veto threat from the president.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Tiger Woods and John Edwards had a better year than the stimulus bill.
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I've often wished we had more women in the Senate.
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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 single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.
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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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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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