Mitch McConnell

“I think it's a big mistake for our party to write off Latino Americans. They're an important part of our country.”

“People are genuinely excited about taking the country in another direction.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I don't think there is any equivalency between the way the Russians conduct themselves and the way the United States does.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.'”

“Bills should go through committee.”

“So in the House and Senate, we own the budget. So what does that mean? That means that we can pass the spending bill.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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?”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Personally criticizing a member of my staff hardly seemed like the way to negotiate a deal.”

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

“My first memory in life was my last visit to Warm Springs.”