Ken Mehlman Quotes

I'm a Republican. I may go into politics myself.

Are the Democrats going to dance the mandate Macarena?

I propose to be mayor for the Republicans, Progressives, Socialists, and independent voters as well as the Democrats.

Democrats are like a big tortoise that's on its back and can't get up; you can't make jokes about that.

If the president is failing to disclose material facts with regard to legislation being presented to the Congress on a question as important as war and peace, I think it does impair the level of trust that the House and the Senate have for this administration.

I would like to thank my colleagues for voting a Social Democrat prime minister and to assure them I will vote a liberal president, as well.

I ran for Congress, just once.

There aren't a whole lot of people out of 300 million who could elected to the Congress.

I can't believe George Bush might be president.

Reparations, I believe, are talked about for political reasons, trying to cater for the purpose of getting votes. If Congress was serious about reparations - in '93 and '94 the Democrats controlled the House, the Senate and the White House, and not one single Republican vote was needed for reparations.

Any man who can carry a Republican primary is a man.

Every member of Congress is shaped by his or her first election.

I am a democrat.

If we could, somehow, get a vote of the people of Tennessee and have it result properly, it would be worth more to us than a battle gained. How long before we can get such a vote?

I have a Congress on my hands.

Conservatives of Western North Carolina should send Mark Meadows to Congress. We need his help.

Republicans will own Congress.

Obviously, we have a political season in the United States, and there's always different winds that blow on that.

When the people's representatives have to go on record and vote, it transforms our country. It is a full recognition that we are in a state of war.

If you had the opportunity to cast your vote for speaker, would you vote for Nancy Pelosi?

We need to keep this Labour government, it has a good chance of another term.

I'd like to see that bipartisanship come back that we used to have in the House of Representatives, in the Clinton years. I think there's a possibility that the voters are going to send the message that everybody running - Congress, the Senate, the presidency - that they want us to come together.

I am a freeman, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order.

I enjoyed my stay in the Congress. Most people do not. And too many people who have been elected really don't understand the nature of government.

I never thought I would run for Congress. If you look back at a certain reality TV show, you know that.