Mitch McConnell the Politician, biography, facts and quotes

"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"

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

"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"

"The new troops in Iraq need to be Iraqi troops"

"It's time Congress got its priorities straight"

"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"

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

"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"

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

"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"

"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"

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

"The fact is, if our primary legislative goals are to repeal and replace the health spending bill; to end the bailouts; cut spending; and shrink the size and scope of government, the only way to do all these things it is to put someone in the White House who won't veto any of these things"

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

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

"If the administration wants cooperation, it will have to begin to move in our direction"

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

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

"We're not gonna misread our mandate"

"There is a lot of room for improvement in Social Security. We owe our children the most financially sound system possible. They will have paid into it their entire working lives. They deserve to be protected by it. for our children and grandchildren"

"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"

"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"

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

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

Occup.	Politician
From	USA
Born	February 20, 1942
Age	82 years

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