214 Quotes by Mitch McConnell

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

We need to be honest with the public.

The implication here is that those who came to America legally over the years are somehow second-class citizens.

We all got here from somewhere else going back in our lineage. And I think these gratuitous attacks on Americans who got here recently or whose parents got here recently need to stop.

The Frist fairness rule guarantees up-or-down votes for every circuit court or Supreme Court nomination, regardless of which party controls the Senate or the White House.

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

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 don't want to sound like a whiner here, but if you get beat up all the time, it affects you.

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.