Mitch McConnell Quotes

It's time Congress got its priorities straight.

It just doesn't occur to an American that someone else will solve their problems. Americans take pride in solving problems for themselves. And if we fail, we get back up and try again. It's what we do. It's who we are.

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.

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

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

Bolton's exactly what the U.N. needs at this point. The president's right on the mark in picking him.

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

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

It is time for a leader who will lead.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Today, Democrats not only have the White House; they have the Senate too. So we have to be realistic about what we can and cannot achieve, while at the same recognizing that realism should never be confused with capitulation.

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.

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.

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.

For four years, Barack Obama has been running from the nation's problems. He hasn't been working to earn reelection. He's been working to earn a spot on the PGA tour.

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?

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.

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

To call this a recovery is an insult to recoveries.

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.

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

On the issue of Iraq, it is my hope, and my challenge to my colleagues, that our debate will be based on what is best for the future of our nation and for Iraq, not what's best for a political party or presidential campaign.

Where we are now is we have resolved the revenue issue and the question is what are we going to do about spending. I wish the president would lead us in this discussion rather than putting himself in a position of having to be dragged kicking and screaming to the table to discuss the single biggest issue confronting our future.

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

It's a shame that the president doesn't embrace the effort to reduce spending. None of us like using situations like the sequester or the debt ceiling or the operation of government to try to engage the president to deal with this.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Mitt Romney has never been resigned to what someone else said was possible. He cut his own path. That's why he believes in his heart that America has a future full of opportunity and hope. And that's why when Mitt Romney looks down the road, he sees a country that's ready for a comeback.

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.

More women are graduating from college now than men.

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.

We're not gonna misread our mandate.

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