Mitch McConnell Quotes

“We're not Democrats first. We're not Republicans first. We're Americans first. We're patriots first.”

“We all got here from somewhere else going back in our lineage.”

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

“America's a land of second opportunities.”

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

“The country doesn't need saving.”

“One of life's most underappreciated talents is to know when it's time to move on to life's next chapter.”

“I have many faults. Misunderstanding politics is not one of them.”

“Winners make policy and losers go home.”

“There's no education in the second kick of a mule.”

“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 greatest way to ensure stability in our laws is to ensure that everyone has an opportunity to participate in some way in the passage.”

“The Senate is not the sort of place where instant gratification, I should say, is very likely.”

“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 that we'd like to pursue.”

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

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

“I don't think there should be a litmus test on judges, no matter who the president is.”

“We need to be honest with the public.”

“I think we need to respect the wishes of voters.”

“I try to appeal to all Kentucky voters, regardless of gender, about the future of the state.”

“Don't fall in love with the map. The map doesn't win elections.”

“Almost never does a candidate with high negatives have much of a coattail effect.”

“We're not gonna misread our mandate.”

“After 1994, the public had the impression we Republicans overpromised and underdelivered.”

“By their own admission, leaders of the Republican Revolution of 1994 think their greatest mistake was overlooking the power of the veto.”