Quotes from 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.

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

Our nation has a regrettable history of drawing down our forces and readiness after each conflict, only to find ourselve ill-prepared for the next great struggle.

I hope in the end that people will remember what Reagan said: that if he could get 80 percent of what he wanted, you call it a win and move on.

In the last 100 years, three presidents suffered big defeats in Congress in their first term and then won reelection: Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, and the most recent example, Bill Clinton.

A lot of us were wondering, what is Trump really going to be like? He used to support Democrats and have various views earlier in his life about politics.

Putin is a former KGB agent. He's a thug. He was not elected in a way that most people would consider a credible election.

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.

Do we need to tighten restrictions on people coming into the country? I think there's a good argument for that, but a kind of broad ban is a bad idea, and, of course, many American Muslims are great sources of information as we seek to look for domestic folks who might be engaged in trying to promote terrorist activities.

To call this a recovery is an insult to recoveries.

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.'

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.

What will happen is the bills will start out the way we like them; in order to move them - we'll probably have to make compromises. That's the way the legislative process works when it's functioning.

NATO is the most important military alliance in world history.

We need to be honest with the public.

What happens in committee if the committee functions, more often than not, not every time but more often than not, a bill comes out with bipartisan support.

I don't in any way think the American people rejected the Republican Party, or we'd be in a lot worse shape than we are.

My view is that Trump will not change the Republican Party, America's right-of-center party. If he brings in new followers, that's great, and well worth the effort, but he will not change the Republican Party.

I always think a debt ceiling is a good tool to carry something.

As President Obama reminded us, we're all on one team.

As I've said repeatedly over the last few years, the war on coal was not a result of anything Congress passed; there was no legislation.

We're not Democrats first. We're not Republicans first. We're Americans first. We're patriots first.

After 1994, the public had the impression we Republicans overpromised and underdelivered.

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.