Mitch McConnell

“To call this a recovery is an insult to recoveries.”

“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 country is yearning for a change. I'd rather take my chances on somebody new, particularly with regard to the Supreme Court.”

“America's a land of second opportunities.”

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

“The American people gave us a new majority in 2014.”

“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.”

“I certainly would like to see the war on coal come to an end.”

“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.”

“We're not gonna misread our mandate.”

“Let me speak for myself: The Russians are not our friends.”

“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.”

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

“It is time for a leader who will lead.”

“My wife came here at age 8 not speaking a word of English and ended up in the president's Cabinet.”

“We're living under the Obama economy. Any CEO in America with a record like this after three years on the job would be graciously shown the door. This president blames the managers instead. He blames the folks on the shop floor. He blames the weather.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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