Quotes from Mitch McConnell

The greatest way to ensure stability in our laws is to ensure that everyone has an opportunity to participate in some way in the passage.

Personally criticizing a member of my staff hardly seemed like the way to negotiate a deal.

I think it's a time to be sad about what's been done to the United States Senate, the greatest deliberative body in the world.

I've often wished we had more women in the Senate.

More women are graduating from college now than men.

Diplomacy is important, extremely important, and I don't think these reductions at the State Department are appropriate because many times diplomacy is a lot more effective - and cert cheaper - than military engagement.

I'm optimistic that none of my members in the end want to be responsible for the status quo on Obamacare.

If the idea behind Obamacare was to get everyone covered, that's one of the many failures.

Some contend that, by fulfilling our promise to the American people, we're somehow trying to go back to the way things were before ObamaCare - which we all know is untrue.

No matter how unusual a personality may be who gets elected to office, there are constraints in this country. You don't get to do anything you want to. So I'm very optimistic about America.

I don't think it's all that unusual for a new president to want to get along with the Russians. I remember George W. Bush having the same hope.

It's time Congress got its priorities straight.

Only one thing can save this country, and that's to get a handle on this deficit and debt issue.

What I have said is, when the American people elect divided government, what are they saying? I think they're saying we know you have differences of opinion on big things.

You can give to Americans for Prosperity or something else - a variety of different ways to push back against the party of government.

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.

And this year, when we end the cruel, defeatist practice of passing children who cannot read into fourth grade, and when our most diligent students begin to graduate from high school in 11 years, and get a head start on college costs with the dollars they earned through their hard work, others will take notice of Indiana yet again.

I don't want to sound like a whiner here, but if you get beat up all the time, it affects you.

The American people gave us a new majority in 2014.

By their own admission, leaders of the Republican Revolution of 1994 think their greatest mistake was overlooking the power of the veto. They gave the impression they were somehow in charge when they weren't.

Almost without exception, President Obama begins serious policy discussions by explaining why everyone else is wrong. After he assigns straw men to your views, he enthusiastically attempts to knock them down with a theatrically earnest re-litigation of what you've missed about his brilliance.

It is time for a leader who will lead.

Don't fall in love with the map. The map doesn't win elections.

The worst experience any majority can have is that you convene and you look around and nothing's ready to go.