The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice.
Mitch McConnell
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.
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 money that goes into Social Security is not the government's money. it's your money. You paid for it.
Today, Democrats not only have the White House; they have the Senate too. So we have to be realistic about what we can and cannot achieve, while at the same recognizing that realism should never be confused with capitulation.
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.
We all know that Social Security is one of this country's greatest success stories in the 20th century.
The fact is, if our primary legislative goals are to repeal and replace the health spending bill; to end the bailouts; cut spending; and shrink the size and scope of government, the only way to do all these things it is to put someone in the White House who won't veto any of these things.
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.
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.'
I just want to remind everybody that this is an extraordinarily resilient country we live in.
We're a country of five-second sound bites and 30-second commercials. Eight years of one person is just too much.
People are genuinely excited about taking the country in another direction.
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.
NATO is the most important military alliance in world history.
Americans don't think we should be raising taxes on anybody, especially in the middle of a recession.
The bill that job creators and out-of-work Americans need us to pass is the one that ensures taxes won't go up - one that says Americans and small-business owners won't get hit with more bad news at the end of the year.
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.
Let me speak for myself: The Russians are not our friends.
I'm not going to comment on White House personnel selections.
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.
To call this a recovery is an insult to recoveries.
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.
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.
More young people believe they'll see a U.F.O. than that they'll see their own Social Security benefits.
America being a force is a lot more than building up the Defense Department.
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?
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.
The White House has a choice: They can change course, or they can double down on a vision of government that the American people have roundly rejected.
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.
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.
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.
So in the House and Senate, we own the budget. So what does that mean? That means that we can pass the spending bill.
It is time for a leader who will lead.
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.
Bills should go through committee.
President Obama had two Supreme Court nominees in his first term. There was no filibuster against them.
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.
I don't want to sound like a whiner here, but if you get beat up all the time, it affects you.
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.
Americans are too speedy.
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.
We need to be honest with the public.
I'm not going to critique every utterance of the president.
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 country doesn't need saving.
I thought the Pence selection ought to reassure the right-of-center voters that a Trump administration would be a right-of-center administration.
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.
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.
