Our friends on the other side decided early on they didn't want to engage with us in a serious way, a serious way to help those suffering under Obamacare.
— Mitch McConnell
You can give to Americans for Prosperity or something else - a variety of different ways to push back against the party of government.
I try to appeal to all Kentucky voters, regardless of gender, about the future of state.
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.
The Frist fairness rule guarantees up-or-down votes for every circuit court or Supreme Court nomination, regardless of which party controls the Senate or the White House.
The majority in the Senate is prepared to restore the Senate's traditions and precedents to ensure that regardless of party, any president's judicial nominees, after full and fair debate, receive a simple up-or-down vote on the Senate floor.
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.
We're not Democrats first. We're not Republicans first. We're Americans first. We're patriots first.
I don't think there is any equivalency between the way the Russians conduct themselves and the way the United States does.
I just want to remind everybody that this is an extraordinarily resilient country we live in.
America's a land of second opportunities.
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.
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.
People are genuinely excited about taking the country in another direction.
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.'
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.
Bills should go through committee.
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.
Only one thing can save this country, and that's to get a handle on this deficit and debt issue.
I certainly would like to see the war on coal come to an end.
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.
Personally criticizing a member of my staff hardly seemed like the way to negotiate a deal.
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.
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.
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.
Trump was able to convey - oddly enough a message from a billionaire who lives in Manhattan - a genuine concern for people who felt kind of left off, who felt offended by all the political correctness they see around them.
The people who would call me an obstructionist overlook some inconvenient facts.
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.
President Obama had two Supreme Court nominees in his first term. There was no filibuster against them.
I'm not going to comment on White House personnel selections.
Back during the campaign, there were a lot of questions: Is Trump really a conservative? A lot of questions about it.
We need to be honest with the public.
I thought the Pence selection ought to reassure the right-of-center voters that a Trump administration would be a right-of-center administration.
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.
So in the House and Senate, we own the budget. So what does that mean? That means that we can pass the spending bill.
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.
The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice.
It is time to move away from advise and obstruct and get back to advise and consent.
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.
As President Obama reminded us, we're all on one team.
I'm not going to critique every utterance of the president.
No matter what a candidate for president may say during the campaign, once someone is sworn in, they are constrained by the Constitution - about what the Constitution allows and doesn't allow, what the law allows and doesn't allow.
Everybody has barriers to overcome, some more than others. I don't want to act like I'm all that unique. America's full of stories like mine. This is a special country with enormous opportunity for those who don't quit.
I ran for president of the student council at my high school in Louisville. And ran against a guy who I thought was better known and little bit better student and managed to win.
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.
We need to bear in mind that we don't have religious tests in this country, and we also need to remember that some of our best allies in the war against Islamic terrorism are Muslims.
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.
The country doesn't need saving.
After 1994, the public had the impression we Republicans overpromised and underdelivered.
