Quotes by Mitch McConnell

About Mitch McConnell:

Addison Mitchell is the senior United States Senator from Kentucky. A member of the Republican Party, he has been the Majority Leader of the Senate since January 3, 2015. He is the 15th Senate Republican Leader and the second Kentuckian to lead his party in the Senate. He is also the longest serving U.S. Senator in Kentucky history.
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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 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

The new troops in Iraq need to be Iraqi troops.

Mitch McConnell

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

Mitch McConnell

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

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

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

Mitch McConnell

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.

Mitch McConnell

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

Mitch McConnell

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.

Mitch McConnell

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...

Mitch McConnell

A reporter asked recently, 'What keeps you up at night?' I replied that I generally sleep well, but if I ever do have trouble, I don't have to count sheep. I count all the states I'm glad I'm not the governor of.

Mitch McConnell

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.

Mitch McConnell

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.

Mitch McConnell

To call this a recovery is an insult to recoveries.

Mitch McConnell

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

Mitch McConnell

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

Mitch McConnell

We're not gonna misread our mandate.

Mitch McConnell

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.

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.

Mitch McConnell

Author Bio

  • NameMitch McConnell
  • DescriptionUS Senator from Kentucky, Senate Majority Leader
  • BornFebruary 20, 1942
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPolitician; Lawyer