Quotes by Mitch McConnell

“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.”

“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 re...”

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

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

“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?”

“I think the testimony obviously ought to be sworn testimony. And we ought to go all the way into this and take as much time as we can to reassure the American people that this sort of thing’s not g...”

“You're more likely to see Elvis again than to see this bill pass the Senate.”

“With regard to White House officials, it will be up to the President to decide frankly whether and when and under what circumstances members of his [own White House staff] testify.”

“There was no involvement whatsoever.”

“Nobody is happy about losing lives but, remember, these are not draftees. These are full-time professional soldiers.”

“We need to say to everyone on Election Day, Those of you who helped make this a good day, you need to go out and help us finish the job.(National Journal): What’s the job?The single most important ...”

“We worked very hard to keep our fingerprints off of these proposals, Because we thought—correctly, I think—that the only way the American people would know that a great debate was going on was if t...”

“Mr. President, allow me to say a few words about the Speaker of the House. There is a lot you can say about John Boehner. He loves his breakfast every morning at Pete's Diner. He is a fan of the ti...”

“When John talks about struggling to make it, it is not some platitude. When John gets choked up about Americans reaching for their dreams, it is not some act. This is a guy who had to share a bathr...”

“Mr. President, two Federal courts have already found that the Obama administration's plan to regulate the land around nearly every pothole and ditch is illegal. It is hardly a surprise. The adminis...”

“I do support the Federal Water Quality Protection Act. I actually worked with Senator Barrasso to introduce it and will take a vote to move the bipartisan bill forward this afternoon. A bipartisan ...”

“Mr. President, on November 8, just a few weeks away, the people of Burma will hold national elections. This promises to be a momentous event for a country many of us have studied and followed for a...”

“First, the Constitution was not amended prior to the election. As many of my colleagues will recall, the Burmese Constitution unreasonably restricts who can be a candidate for President, a hardly s...”

“Allowing appropriate constitutional changes to pass through the Parliament would have represented a tangible demonstration of the Burmese Government's commitment to both political reform and to a f...”

“Reports indicate that otherwise eligible Rohingya, more than half a million of them, have been systematically deprived of the right to vote and the right to stand for election. That poses another s...”