Mitch McConnell Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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

It's a shame that we have to use whatever leverage we have in Congress to get the president to deal with the biggest problem confronting our future. And that's our excessive spending.

The worst day of my political life was when President George W. Bush signed McCain-Feingold into law.

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

Whether it's before the election or after the election, the principle is the American people are choosing their next president and their next president should pick this Supreme Court nominee.

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

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

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?

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

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.

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

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

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

The worst experience any majority can have is that you convene and you look around and nothing's ready to go.

I'm really proud of this Supreme Court and the way they've been dealing with the issue of First Amendment political speech.

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

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.

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

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

We're certainly gonna keep our commitment to the American people to make every effort we can to repeal [Obamacare].

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

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

I think it is to the advantage of my state to have the opportunity to come to meetings occasionally and to vote in person, rather than just by proxy.

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.

The new troops in Iraq need to be Iraqi troops.

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

More women are graduating from college now than men.

We [Democrats] are looking for things that we think would make a difference, improve the country, and enjoy some bipartisan support.

We ought to make sure that the eligibility for entitlements meets the demographics of America.

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.

I'm in favor of doing tax reform, but I think tax reform ought to be revenue neutral as it was back during the [Ronald] Reagan years. We've resolved this issue.

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

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

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

I know how it feels when you're coming into a new situation, that the other guys won the election.

Tiger Woods and John Edwards had a better year than the stimulus bill.

What happens in committee if the committee functions, more often than not, not every time but more often than not, a bill comes out with bipartisan support.

I think it's not just Republicans who would like to see the Senate run differently. I think there are a reasonable number of Democrats as well.

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

If you've got a brand new administration coming into office you want to have, at the very least, a national security team in place on day one.

I don't think there's any equivalency between the way that the Russians conduct themselves and the way the United States does.

To put a trillion dollars in context, if you spend a million dollars every day since Jesus was born, you still wouldn't have spent a trillion.