Quotes from 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?

The worst day of my political life was when President George W. Bush signed McCain-Feingold into law in the early part of his first administration.

The Senate is not the sort of place where instant gratification, I should say, is very likely.

The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.

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.

You know, 'Professor Obama' has been a label applied to him by Republicans and Democrats alike. He's a very smart guy. But I think he'd be, you know, better served not to spend so much time trying to impress us with his particular position on an issue and understand that there are things upon which we simply have a disagreement.

I don't think there should be a litmus test on judges, no matter who the president is.

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

The new troops in Iraq need to be Iraqi troops.

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.

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

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.

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.

The implication here is that those who came to America legally over the years are somehow second-class citizens.

The Russians are clearly a big adversary, and they demonstrated it by trying to mess around in our election.

If you've got a brand new administration coming into office you want to have, at the very least, a national security team in place on day one.

It's important to remember that some of our best sources in the war against radical Islamic terrorism are Muslims, both in America and overseas.

We all got here from somewhere else going back in our lineage. And I think these gratuitous attacks on Americans who got here recently or whose parents got here recently need to stop.

We're a country of five-second sound bites and 30-second commercials. Eight years of one person is just too much.

I think we know enough now to know that Donald Trump is doing the same kinds of things that Jeb Bush would have done or Marco Rubio would have done or Mitt Romney would have done.

The Senate is allowed to work the way it was designed to - meaning a place where nothing is decided without a good dose of deliberation and debate, as well as input from both the majority and minority parties - it arrives at a result that is acceptable to people all along the political spectrum.

My job is to try to protect jobs in Kentucky now, not speculate about science in the future.

Americans are too speedy.

I want to reassure our NATO allies that if any of them get attacked, we'll be there to defend them.