Mitch McConnell famous quotes

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.
-- Mitch McConnell

#Thinking #Citizens #Levels

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

#Thinking #Issues #People

Republicans will not be reduced to being the tax collectors for the Obama economy.
-- Mitch McConnell

#Republican #Economy #Taxes

America is about to turn the page on Barack Obama's four-year experiment in big government.
-- Mitch McConnell

#Years #America #Government

You'll regret this, and you may regret this a lot sooner than you think.
-- Mitch McConnell

#Regret #Memorable #Thinking

Public disclosure of campaign contributions and spending should be expedited so voters can judge for themselves what is appropriate.
-- Mitch McConnell

#Judging #Voters #Campaigns

America is ready to elect its first African American President, especially one with light-skin and and no Negro dialect.
-- Mitch McConnell

#America #Light #Skins

I've often wished we had more women in the Senate.
-- Mitch McConnell

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

#Country #Believe #Government

The worst day of my political life was when President George W. Bush signed McCain-Feingold into law in the early part of his first Administration.
-- Mitch McConnell

#Law #Political #President

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

#Issues #Political #Speech

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.
-- Mitch McConnell

#Government #White #People

We hear the stories every day now: the father who puts on a suit every morning and leaves the house so his daughter doesn't know he lost his job, the recent college grad facing up to the painful reality that the only door that's open to her after four years of study and a pile of debt is her parents'. These are the faces of the Obama economy.
-- Mitch McConnell

#Daughter #Mother #Morning

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.
-- Mitch McConnell

#Long #Friendly #President

The money that goes into Social Security is not the government's money. it's your money. You paid for it.
-- Mitch McConnell

#Government #Social #Security

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

#Usa #Years #Debt

We all know that Social Security is one of this country's greatest success stories in the 20th century.
-- Mitch McConnell

#Country #Stories #Social

A reporter asked recently, 'What keeps you up at night?' I replied that I generally sleep well, but if I ever do have trouble, I don't have to count sheep. I count all the states I'm glad I'm not the governor of.
-- Mitch McConnell

#Sleep #Night #Sheep

After adding trillions to the debt on big-government policies most Americans didn't ask for and which we couldn't afford, Democratic leaders say they need more money, which they intend to take from small business, even though small businesses create the majority of new jobs.
-- Mitch McConnell

#Jobs #Government #Leader

More young people believe they'll see a U.F.O. than that they'll see their own Social Security benefits.
-- Mitch McConnell

#Believe #People #Benefits

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.
-- Mitch McConnell

#Jobs #Years #Needs

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

#Government #Delay #Levels

The new troops in Iraq need to be Iraqi troops.
-- Mitch McConnell

#Iraq #Needs #Troops

We're living under the Obama economy. Any CEO in America with a record like this after three years on the job would be graciously shown the door. This president blames the managers instead. He blames the folks on the shop floor. He blames the weather.
-- Mitch McConnell

#Jobs #Doors #Years

The minimum wage is mostly an entry-level wage for young people.
-- Mitch McConnell

#People #Levels #Minimum Wage

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

#Thinking #Issues #Done

Tiger Woods and John Edwards had a better year than the Stimulus bill.
-- Mitch McConnell

#Years #Bills #Woods

By their own admission, leaders of the Republican Revolution of 1994 think their greatest mistake was overlooking the power of the veto. They gave the impression they were somehow in charge when they weren't.
-- Mitch McConnell

#Mistake #Thinking #Leader

I think the important thing to remember here is that we haven't been attacked again at home since September of 2001.
-- Mitch McConnell

#Home #Thinking #Important

It is time for a leader who will lead.
-- Mitch McConnell

#Leader

It took us in this country 11 years to get from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution.
-- Mitch McConnell

#Country #Years #Independence

Mitt Romney has spent his entire life finding ways to solve problems.
-- Mitch McConnell

#Way #Problem #Solve

Given the scope of these programs, it's understandable that many would be concerned about issues related to privacy. But what's difficult to understand is the motivation of somebody who intentionally would seek to warn the nation's enemies of lawful programs created to protect the American people. And I hope that he is prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
-- Mitch McConnell

#Motivation #Law #Nsa

More women are graduating from college now than men.
-- Mitch McConnell

#College #Men #Graduates

It seems with every new day, we have a new veto threat from the president.
-- Mitch McConnell

#New Day #President #Notable

Eventually, Americans would be stuck with government-run health care whether they like it or not. That's when the worst scenario would take shape, with Americans subjected to bureaucratic hassles, hours spent on hold waiting for a government service rep to take a call, restrictions on care, and, yes, lifesaving treatment and lifesaving surgeries denied or delayed.
-- Mitch McConnell

#Running #Government #Waiting

Obama hasn't been working to earn reelection, he's been working to earn a spot on the PGA tour!
-- Mitch McConnell

#Politics #Reelection #Republican

For everybody who thinks it's warming, I can find somebody who thinks it isn't.
-- Mitch McConnell

#Thinking #Republican #Climate Change

The administration still wants to govern from the far-left and that's going to produce kind a partisan result here in the Congress.
-- Mitch McConnell

#Aggravation #Want #Administration

Forcing free market plans to compete with these government-run programs would create an unlevel playing field and inevitably doom true competition...
-- Mitch McConnell

#Running #Government #Competition

The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.
-- Mitch McConnell

#President #Important #Politics

Syria and Iran have always had a pretty tight relationship, and it looks to me like they just cooked up a press release to put out to sort of restate the obvious. They're both problem countries; we know that. And this doesn't change anything.
-- Mitch McConnell

#Change #Country #Iran

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

#Development #Murder #Crime

Americans don't think we should be raising taxes on anybody, especially in the middle of a recession.
-- Mitch McConnell

#Thinking #Middle #Should

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

#Children #School #Hard Work