Almost never does a candidate with high negatives have much of a coattail effect.
— Mitch McConnell
I don't want to sound like a whiner here, but if you get beat up all the time, it affects you.
I'm against lifting any sanctions on the Russians.
The Russians are clearly a big adversary, and they demonstrated it by trying to mess around in our election.
I think that winning the White House is about more than just entertaining a large audience.
Don't fall in love with the map. The map doesn't win elections.
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.
I think it's a big mistake for our party to write off Latino Americans. They're an important part of our country.
My first memory in life was my last visit to Warm Springs.
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.
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 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.
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.
I only talk to the press if it's to my advantage.
It is time for a leader who will lead.
For four years, Barack Obama has been running from the nation's problems. He hasn't been working to earn reelection. He's been working to earn a spot on the PGA tour.
America is about to turn the page on Barack Obama's four-year experiment in big government.
I want to reassure our NATO allies that if any of them get attacked, we'll be there to defend them.
Let me speak for myself: The Russians are not our friends.
If there's any country in the world that doesn't deserve sanctions relief, it's Russia.
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.
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.
My job is to try to protect jobs in Kentucky now, not speculate about science in the future.
The Senate is not the sort of place where instant gratification, I should say, is very likely.
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.
The implication here is that those who came to America legally over the years are somehow second-class citizens.
America being a force is a lot more than building up the Defense Department.
The American people gave us a new majority in 2014.
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.
Mitt Romney has spent his entire life finding ways to solve problems.
We hear the stories every day now: the father who puts on a suit every morning and leaves the house so his daughter doesn't know he lost his job, the recent college grad facing up to the painful reality that the only door that's open to her after four years of study and a pile of debt is her parents'. These are the faces of the Obama economy.
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?
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.
NATO is the most important military alliance in world history.
I think I'd like to be an owner of a Major League Baseball team.
If the idea behind Obamacare was to get everyone covered, that's one of the many failures.
The country is yearning for a change. I'd rather take my chances on somebody new, particularly with regard to the Supreme Court.
When you hang the 'bipartisan' tag on something, the perception is that differences have been worked out, and there's a broad agreement that that's the way forward.
I always think a debt ceiling is a good tool to carry something.
I believe that marriage should be between one man and one woman.
Nurses told my mother that I was going to be OK. They thought I could walk without a limp and without a brace. And we stopped in a shoe store on the way home and bought a pair of low-top saddle Oxford shoes, which was sort of a symbol that I was going to be a normal little boy.
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.
My wife came here at age 8 not speaking a word of English and ended up in the president's Cabinet.
I'm optimistic that none of my members in the end want to be responsible for the status quo on Obamacare.
The border is way more porous than it should be, and I think we'd be open to discussing anything that enhances border security.
Americans are too speedy.
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.
To call this a recovery is an insult to recoveries.
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.
