Mitch McConnell Quotes About Elections

Quotes about: Elections

• Whether it's before the election or after the election, the principle is the American people are choosing their next president and their next president should pick this Supreme Court nominee.

  Mitch McConnell

  People, President, Next

  Source: www.foxnews.com

• I think there were two messages in last year's election. One is pretty obvious. People were mad as hell at the president [Barack Obama] - and wanted to send a message. We all got that. Our new members were also hearing, and I was hearing as well, that people didn't like the fact that the Congress was dysfunctional. Now they may have been confused about where the dysfunctionality was cause the president kept pointing to the House. Factually, that's not accurate. The dysfunction was in the Senate.

  Mitch McConnell

  Confused, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.rollcall.com

• I know how it feels when you're coming into a new situation, that the other guys won the election.

  Mitch McConnell

  Guy, Election, Situation

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

• The classic example I've used - I'm sure you've heard me say it before - was Mark Begich in Alaska who was here for a full six years and never had a roll call vote on an amendment on the floor of the Senate, which Dan Sullivan tells me he used on virtually a daily basis. So the notion that protecting all of your members from votes is a good idea politically, I think, has been pretty much disproved by the recent [Barack Obama] election.

  Mitch McConnell

  Thinking, Alaska, Years

  Source: www.rollcall.com

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