214 Quotes by 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.

On the issue of Iraq, it is my hope, and my challenge to my colleagues, that our debate will be based on what is best for the future of our nation and for Iraq, not what’s best for a political party or presidential campaign.

As the leader of the Republicans what I’m telling that we elected the president to be president. It’s time for him to step up to the plate and lead us in the direction of reducing our excessive spending.

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.

The biggest problem confronting the country is our excessive spending. If we’re not going to deal with it now, when are we going to deal with it? And we’ve watched the government explode over the last four years. We’ve dealt with the revenue issue.

For everybody who thinks it’s warming, I can find somebody who thinks it isn’t.

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.

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

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