Quote

We have a debt the size of our economy, which makes us look a lot like Greece.

Mitch McConnell

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Mitch McConnell
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: February 20
Celebrity
Judge
Lawyer
Legislative Assistant
Politician
United States Senator
Sheffield
Alabama
Addison Mitchell McConnell
Jr.
Addison Mitchell McConnell Jr.
Addison Mitchell McConnell III
Economy
Makes
Look
Looks
Like
Greece
Debt
Size

More quotes by Mitch McConnell

Image
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.
Mitch McConnell
Image
The new troops in Iraq need to be Iraqi troops.
Mitch McConnell
Image
America is about to turn the page on Barack Obama's four-year experiment in big government.
Mitch McConnell
Image
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.
Mitch McConnell
Image
Forcing free market plans to compete with these government-run programs would create an unlevel playing field and inevitably doom true competition.
Mitch McConnell
Image
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.
Mitch McConnell
Image
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.
Mitch McConnell
Image
As the leader of the Republicans what I'm telling that we elected the president to be president. It's time for him to step up to the plate and lead us in the direction of reducing our excessive spending.
Mitch McConnell
Image
I think the important thing to remember here is that we haven't been attacked again at home since September of 2001.
Mitch McConnell
Image
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.
Mitch McConnell
Image
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[.]
Mitch McConnell
Image
Are we still a country that takes risks, that innovates, that believes anything is possible? Or are we a country that is resigned to whatever liberty the government decides to dish out?
Mitch McConnell
Image
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.
Mitch McConnell
Image
I'm really proud of this Supreme Court and the way they've been dealing with the issue of First Amendment political speech.
Mitch McConnell
Image
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.
Mitch McConnell
Image
We all know that Social Security is one of this country's greatest success stories in the 20th century.
Mitch McConnell
Image
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.
Mitch McConnell
Image
I've often wished we had more women in the Senate.
Mitch McConnell
Image
Tiger Woods and John Edwards had a better year than the stimulus bill.
Mitch McConnell
Image
Obama hasn't been working to earn reelection, he's been working to earn a spot on the PGA tour!
Mitch McConnell