Mitch McConnell quotes

Mitch McConnell is a prominent American politician and the senior U.S. Senator from Kentucky. Serving as the Senate Majority Leader, McConnell has played a significant role in shaping the country's political landscape. With a long and distinguished career in public service, he has championed conservative policies and been an influential member of the Republican Party. As an effective legislator, McConnell has worked tirelessly on important issues such as national security, economic growth, and judicial nominations. His strategic vision and leadership have earned him respect and recognition on both sides of the aisle. McConnell's commitment to advancing his agenda has made him a prominent figure in American politics. Explore more about Mitch McConnell's contributions to public service and leadership in this bio.

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.

- Mitch McConnell

More young people believe they'll see a U.F.O. than that they'll see their own Social Security benefits.

- Mitch McConnell

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

- Mitch McConnell

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

- Mitch McConnell

There is a lot of room for improvement in Social Security. We owe our children the most financially sound system possible. They will have paid into it their entire working lives. They deserve to be protected by it. for our children and grandchildren.

- Mitch McConnell

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.

- Mitch McConnell

The president feels not only do we need to change these rogue regimes, but even our friendly allies, who really basically have, sort of, benign dictatorships, need to get with the program if they want to have long-term security and prosperity from terrorism.

- Mitch McConnell

We need to strengthen and save Social Security for today's workers. If we don't act now, this system, born out of the New Deal, will become a bad deal.

- Mitch McConnell

The money that goes into Social Security is not the government's money. it's your money. You paid for it.

- Mitch McConnell

It took us in this country 11 years to get from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution.

- Mitch McConnell

Syria and Iran have always had a pretty tight relationship, and it looks to me like they just cooked up a press release to put out to sort of restate the obvious. They're both problem countries; we know that. And this doesn't change anything.

- Mitch McConnell

The administration still wants to govern from the far-left and that's going to produce kind a partisan result here in the Congress.

- Mitch McConnell

The debt they ran up in the first year of the Obama administration is bigger than the last four years of the Bush combined.

- Mitch McConnell

I think the important thing to remember here is that we haven't been attacked again at home since September of 2001.

- Mitch McConnell

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

- Mitch McConnell

We're not gonna misread our mandate.

- Mitch McConnell

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

- Mitch McConnell

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.

- Mitch McConnell

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.

- Mitch McConnell

Americans don't think we should be raising taxes on anybody, especially in the middle of a recession.

- Mitch McConnell

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.

- Mitch McConnell

It's time Congress got its priorities straight.

- Mitch McConnell

The new troops in Iraq need to be Iraqi troops.

- Mitch McConnell