Quotes About Mitch McConnell

The country doesn't need saving.

To suggest the President of the United States and the head of the free world - the man who is changing the world - is being manipulated by Mitch McConnell is insulting to the president; it's absolutely insulting.

To suggest that the President of the United States - the head of the free world, a man who is changing the world - is being manipulated by Mitch McConnell is insulting to the president.

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

President Obama had two Supreme Court nominees in his first term. There was no filibuster against them.

It's August, which means Congress is on recess and Mitch McConnell has shimmied back into the ocean to seek a mate.

I had always heard that Mitch McConnell was a master legislator and a true loyalist to this institution. But in the 18 months I've been in the Senate, what I've seen is an astonishingly limited vision for what the Senate can and should accomplish. What a waste.

It is time to move away from advise and obstruct and get back to advise and consent.

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.

As a Democrat, I would just hate to be in a position of only being able to accomplish what Mitch McConnell allows us to.

I am fighting to stop the corruption in Washington that was created by Mitch McConnell.

I'm not going to critique every utterance of the president.

While President Obama assumes that at their core the Republican leadership team is just trying to do what's best for America, Mitch McConnell and John Boehner assume that the president is cynically trying to secure his own reelection, power, and legacy.

I only talk to the press if it's to my advantage.

We did the two-year extension of Bush tax cuts in 2010. We negotiated the Budget Control Act in August of 2011 and the fiscal cliff deal at the end of 2012, which saved 99 percent of Americans from a tax increase.

People are familiar with 'the stick' of the Tea Party... challenging incumbents, flooding the phone lines. What they're not so much familiar with, and what I want to expand, is 'the carrot.' So when a Mitch McConnell, or when a Republican caucus stands firm... we have to reward them.

Mitch McConnell's innovation was in using it constantly to slow down things that did have bipartisan support, just to make sure as little as possible happened that Obama could get credit for. You

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

I do think that the Constitution and the traditions of this country constrain all of us - those of us in Congress and those of us in the White House - from some of our impulses, shall I say, that we'd like to pursue.

We all know that Social Security is one of this country's greatest success stories in the 20th century.

There is no one in America more qualified to talk about bailouts than Mitch McConnell.

I think we need to respect the wishes of voters. They have been busily at work making these decisions in primary after primary after primary.

It is a president's constitutional right to nominate a Supreme Court justice, and it is the Senate's constitutional right to act as a check on a president and withhold its consent.

Things happen in American politics in the political center. If the President will meet us in the center, there are things we can accomplish.