41 Most Famous Mitch McConnell Quotes

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Senator Addison Mitchell McConnell Jr is an American politician. He has been serving as a Senior United States Senator from Kentucky under the Republicans since 1985. He is also the incumbent Senate Minority Leader. He has also served as the Minority Leader from 2007 to 2015 and Majority leader from 2015 to 2021.

Senator Mitch McConnell was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama, on February 20, 1942. During his early childhood, young McConnell had polio. Yet, he overcame the disease after months of rehabilitation. Unfortunately, his family suffered financial constraints from the treatment. Finally, they moved to Alabama. 

McConnell enrolled at the University of Louisville. There, he received a Bachelor’s degree in political science in 1964. After his B.A. degree, he interned with Senator John Cooper. He also graduated from the University of Louisville Law School in 1967.

Shortly after graduation from law school, Senator Mitch McConnell got enlisted in the U.S. Army Reserve. But, he was diagnosed with optic neuritis and discharged after five weeks at Fort Knox.

He has talked about president Trump, Women’s rights, Obama, and more.

You can find out more about the senator here.

Here’s our collection of the best Mitch McConnell Quotes:

Mitch McConnell Quotes on Politics/Obama/Government/Trump

Republicans will not be reduced to being the tax collectors for the Obama economy.

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America is about to turn the page on Barack Obama’s four-year experiment in big government.

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Public disclosure of campaign contributions and spending should be expedited so voters can judge for themselves what is appropriate.

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America is ready to elect its first African American President, especially one with light-skin and and no Negro dialect.

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The worst day of my political life was when President George W. Bush signed McCain-Feingold into law in the early part of his first Administration.

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Are we still a country that takes risks, innovates, that believes anything is possible? Or are we a country that is resigned to whatever liberty the government decides to dish out?

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America is about to turn the page on Barack Obama’s four-year experiment in big government.

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While other state governments stiff their vendors, close parks, delay tax refunds, and ignore unacceptably poor service levels, Indiana state employees are setting national standards for efficiency.

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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.

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You know, ‘Professor Obama’ has been a label applied to him by Republicans and Democrats alike. He’s a very smart guy. But I think he’d be, you know, better served not to spend so much time trying to impress us with his particular position on an issue and understand that there are things upon which we simply have a disagreement.

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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.

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President Obama had two Supreme Court nominees in his first term. There was no filibuster against them.

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My view is that Trump will not change the Republican Party, America’s right-of-center party. If he brings in new followers, that’s great, and well worth the effort, but he will not change the Republican Party.

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Mitch McConnell Quotes on Economy

Mitch McConnell’s Electoral Count Act offer is a poison pill for voting rights. Source: msnbc.com

Republicans will not be reduced to being the tax collectors for the Obama economy.

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We hear the stories every day now: the father who puts on a suit every morning and leaves the house so his daughter doesn’t know he lost his job, the recent college grad facing up to the painful reality that the only door that’s open to her after four years of study and a pile of debt is her parents’. These are the faces of the Obama economy.

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

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

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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 businesses, even though small businesses create the majority of new jobs.

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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.

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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.

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The minimum wage is mostly an entry-level wage for young people.

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Mitch McConnell Quotes on Security/NATO

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., speaks to reporters after a Republican strategy meeting at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

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.

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

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NATO is the most important military alliance in world history.

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Mitch McConnell Quotes on Supreme court/White House

Mitch McConnell Rips ‘Horrendous’ Jan. 6 Riot, Says Public ‘Needs To Know’ What Happened. Source: yahoo.com

I’m really proud of this Supreme Court and the way they’ve been dealing with the issue of First Amendment political speech.

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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.

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Mitch McConnell Quotes on Abortion issues

What we do know is that the American people, regardless of how they feel about the abortion issue, don’t think that taxpayer money ought to be used to pay for abortions.

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 Mitch McConnell Quotes on Women

I’ve often wished we had more women in the Senate.

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Other Mitch McConnell Quotes

All Citizens United did was to level the playing field for corporate speech. We now have, I think, the freest and open system we’ve had in modern times.

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Public disclosure of campaign contributions and spending should be expedited so voters can judge for themselves what is appropriate.

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

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A reporter asked recently, ‘What keeps you up at night?’ I replied that I generally sleep well, but if I ever do have trouble, I don’t have to count sheep. I count all the states I’m glad I’m not the governor of.

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More young people believe they’ll see a U.F.O. then they’ll see their own Social Security benefits.

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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.

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We need to be honest with the public.

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Mitt Romney has never resigned to what someone else said was possible. He cut his own path. That’s why he believes in his heart that America has a future full of opportunity and hope. And that’s why when Mitt Romney looks down the road, he sees a country that’s ready for a comeback.

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I think we need to respect the wishes of voters. They have been busily at work making these decisions in primary after primary after primary.

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No matter what a candidate for president may say during the campaign, once someone is sworn in, they are constrained by the Constitution – about what the Constitution allows and doesn’t allow, what the law allows and doesn’t allow.

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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.

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There is a lot of room for improvement in Social Security. We owe our children the most financially sound system possible. They will have paid into it their entire working lives. They deserve to be protected by it. for our children and grandchildren.

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

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