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United States Senator

American politician and member of the Republican Party, serving as the former Majority Leader of the United States Senate. Born on February 20, 1942 in Louisville, Kentucky.

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“More young people believe they'll see a U.F.O. than that they'll see their own Social Security benefits.”

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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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“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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“The new troops in Iraq need to be Iraqi troops.”

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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 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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“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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“You'll regret this, and you may regret this a lot sooner than you think.”

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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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“I've often wished we had more women in the Senate.”

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

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“The worst day of my political life was when President George W. Bush signed McCain-Feingold into law.”

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

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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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“Forcing free market plans to compete with these government-run programs would create an unlevel playing field and inevitably doom true competition.”

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“Eventually, Americans would be stuck with government-run health care whether they like it or not. That's when the worst scenario would take shape, with Americans subjected to bureaucratic hassles, hours spent on hold waiting for a government service rep to take a call, restrictions on care, and, yes, lifesaving treatment and lifesaving surgeries denied or delayed.”

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“Obama hasn't been working to earn reelection, he's been working to earn a spot on the PGA tour!”

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“For everybody who thinks it's warming, I can find somebody who thinks it isn't.”

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“The administration still wants to govern from the far-left and that's going to produce kind a partisan result here in the Congress.”

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

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“The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.”

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“Syria and Iran have always had a pretty tight relationship, and it looks to me like they just cooked up a press release to put out to sort of restate the obvious. They're both problem countries; we know that. And this doesn't change anything.”

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“This heinous crime should be of particular concern to all of us. . . . I know my colleagues will agree that the murder of Americans overseas cannot go unpunished. I will continue to closely follow developments in this case[.]”

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“Americans don't think we should be raising taxes on anybody, especially in the middle of a recession.”

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“It seems with every new day, we have a new veto threat from the president.”

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“More women are graduating from college now than men.”

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

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“I think some of our members may have thought the default issue was a hostage you might take a chance at shooting. Most of us didn’t think that. What we did learn is this - it’s a hostage that’s worth ransoming. And it focuses the Congress on something that must be done.”

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“Tiger Woods and John Edwards had a better year than the stimulus bill.”

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Born: February 20, 1942
Known for: United States Senator
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