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.

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

I just want to remind everybody that this is an extraordinarily resilient country we live in.

We did the two-year extension of Bush tax cuts in 2010. We negotiated the Budget Control Act in August of 2011 and the fiscal cliff deal at the end of 2012, which saved 99 percent of Americans from a tax increase.

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

The country doesn't need saving.

I want to reassure our NATO allies that if any of them get attacked, we'll be there to defend them.

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.

I'm optimistic that none of my members in the end want to be responsible for the status quo on Obamacare.

I don't in any way think the American people rejected the Republican Party, or we'd be in a lot worse shape than we are.

I only talk to the press if it's to my advantage.

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