Mitch McConnell quotes

Mitch McConnell is an American politician and longtime U.S. Senator from Kentucky. Widely regarded as a powerful figure in the Senate, he has served as both Majority and Minority Leader. He is known for his influence on judicial appointments and his leadership within the Republican Party. Here are 68 of his quotes:

One of my proudest moments was when I looked Barack Obama in the eye and I said, 'Mr. President, you will not fill the Supreme Court vacancy.

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Things happen in American politics in the political center. If the President will meet us in the center, there are things we can accomplish.

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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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We need to strengthen and save Social Security for today's workers. If we don't act now, this system, born out of the New Deal, will become a bad deal.

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There was no involvement whatsoever.

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I can't imagine that a Republican majority in the United States Senate would want to confirm, in a lame duck session, a nominee opposed by the National Rifle Association.

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Apparently there's yet a new standard now to not confirm a Supreme Court nominee at all. I think that's something the American people simply will not tolerate.

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She was warned. She was given an explanation. Nevertheless, she persisted.

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I think the testimony obviously ought to be sworn testimony. And we ought to go all the way into this and take as much time as we can to reassure the American people that this sort of thing's not going to happen again in the future.

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Nobody is happy about losing lives but, remember, these are not draftees. These are full-time professional soldiers.

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We need to say to everyone on Election Day, "Those of you who helped make this a good day, you need to go out and help us finish the job." (National Journal): What's the job? The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.

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Every election we know features some illegality and irregularity, and of course that's unacceptable. I support strong state-led voting reforms. Last year's bizarre pandemic procedures must not become the new norm, but my colleagues, nothing before us proves illegality anywhere near the massive scale, the massive scale that would have tipped the entire election, nor can public doubt alone justify a radical break when the doubt itself was incited without any evidence.

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The pathway our Democratic colleagues have accepted will spare the American people any near-term crisis.

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We have a criminal justice system in this country. We have civil litigation. And former Presidents are not immune from being held accountable by either one.

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African American voters are voting in just as high a percentage as Americans.

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We're going to do everything we can to make sure she's successful.

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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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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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The White House has a choice: They can change course, or they can double down on a vision of government that the American people have roundly rejected.

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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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The bill that job creators and out-of-work Americans need us to pass is the one that ensures taxes won't go up - one that says Americans and small-business owners won't get hit with more bad news at the end of the year.

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The debt they ran up in the first year of the Obama administration is bigger than the last four years of the Bush combined.

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