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Quotes by Mitch McConnell

Elections are breaking out in the strangest places: Afghanistan, Iraq, the Palestinian territories, Georgia, Ukraine. A genuine election in Lebanon would be a darn good thing.
– Mitch McConnell
More young people believe they'll see a U.F.O. than that they'll see their own Social Security benefits.
– Mitch McConnell
No, we don't turn our security and safety over to the UN. Occasionally working through the UN is useful. It gives us an opportunity to talk to other countries while they're represented in New York. But the UN is in many ways a pretty big mess.
– Mitch McConnell
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
The money that goes into Social Security is not the government's money. it's your money. You paid for it.
– Mitch McConnell
The new troops in Iraq need to be Iraqi troops.
– Mitch McConnell
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
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.
– Mitch McConnell
We all know that Social Security is one of this country's greatest success stories in the 20th century.
– Mitch McConnell
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.
– Mitch McConnell
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
Things happen in American politics in the political center. If the President will meet us in the center, there are things we can accomplish.
– Mitch McConnell
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.
– Mitch McConnell
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.
– 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
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