Mitch McConnell Quotes

If you become president, you're guaranteed to develop some nervous habit.

It sure is hell to be president.

It's a tough job being a politician.

Anybody who suggests that I run for governor is no friend of mine. It's a terrible position, and besides, it requires living in Albany, which is small-town life at its worst.

I never imagined, never imagined I would have the opportunity to be governor of the state that I love.

I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?

Did you sleep well?" "No, I made a couple of mistakes.

When you force sleep, it doesn't happen.

The best state is that in which bad men are not allowed to hold office, and good men are not allowed to refuse office.

You mustn't expect prime ministers to enjoy themselves. If they do, they mustn't show it - the population would be horrified.

I can't sleep with you tonight, baby, my head's all messed up, you've no idea. It's somewhere else and it's full of voices and songs and bad things.

Being President is a little bit like riding a tiger. You have to keep riding, or else you will be swallowed up by it!

She'd slept terribly the night before. The room, the bed, were both comfortable enough, but she'd been plagued with strange dreams, the sort that lingered upon waking but slithered away from memory as she tried to grasp them. Only the tendrils of discomfort remained.

I'm a terrible sleeper. I get obsessive, repetitive thoughts and it's horrible.

It was impossible to sleep. Anxiety stopped me from falling asleep; depression woke me up.

Insomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day.

Arnold Schwarzenegger is now governor of California. He is a very shrewd man - he already has all of his sex scandals behind him.

I don't think I would be a good politician. I kid about it when I get a standing ovation. Sometimes I'll say, "I may run for Governor," but it's strictly a joke.

O polished perturbation! golden care! That keep'st the ports of slumber open wide To many a watchful night.

Now the world has gone to bed, Darkness won't engulf my head, I can see by infrared, How I hate the night. Now I lay me down to sleep, Try to count electric sheep, Sweet dream wishes you can keep, How I hate the night. -Marvin

Because, really, what was worse than lying wide-awake in the dark, watching your life drip away, one irreplaceable minute after another?

My own eyes try to sleep, but they don't. They stay wide awake as time snarls forward and silence drops down, like measured thought.

The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to.

Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday's omissions and regrets.

Insomniacs know better than anyone how it would be to haunt a house.