Mitch McConnell Quotes

What we need is some people to stand up with the courage of their convictions, to do what they promised when they ran for election, and fight to stop Obamacare.

As a businessperson, I don't have the power to change the government. That is in the hands of the political leaders. However, as a taxpayer, we have the right to be critical of the government and demand change.

Our new government is now in full Operation, but how it will move or what will be the End of it I can scarcely conjecture. I am not yet in Love with it, & I doubt if I ever shall be

I know it may be hard to imagine given how broken and gridlocked our politics truly are, but from the White House to, yes, Congress, the government is filled with hard-working, idealistic public servants working incredibly hard on tough issues, trying to make people's lives better and move the country, and our world, forward.

I ran for president in order to be able to try to change Washington D.C. from the inside. Our federal government is broken.

It's a rarity when someone takes a political risk in Washington today in the public interest.

Why do the President and Vice-President constantly change the subject when asked to explain why things are going so badly in Iraq? The answer is simple. They have been consistently wrong about Iraq, and the results speak for themselves.

Any government, of whatever composition, needs to mobilise opinion way beyond its own ranks in order to do the difficult things that it does.

Either we start cutting the government and shrinking the size of government, or else we're going to face the political wrath of the American people.

We have work to do, and Tuesday Americans sent Washington a clear message - get the job done.

I know how bad Albany is. I know it better than most. I understand why people are angry. I'm angry. The question is going to be, how do you change Albany, what is the plan for change, and then how do you actually get it done?

We have a government that, generally speaking, does not respond to the people.

Why can't the state accede to the public's wishes?

We hope President Obama will now respect the will of the people, change course, and commit to making the changes they are demanding. To the extent he is willing to do this, we are ready to work with him.

So you know, I think that the federal government, the Democrats, and President Obama are selling a lot of hope and change, but no delivery of any of those promises.

The next adventure is the government, a government of change.

To change criminal justice policy in any meaningful way means to propose changing a very longstanding system. It's not realistic to think you can do it overnight.

If one of my colleagues wants to block a bill, they should stand up in front of the American people and explain why.

Politicians do what they hear from the American people.

Congress and elected bodies always tend to react. As public bodies we are behind the people.

You cannot make elected officials … do what they will not do.

People always want change .... Government always raises expectations far beyond what is there.

Experience shows a particular candidate's election platform has on several occasions changed most radically after he has become President.

The circumstances of the world are continually changing, and the opinions of man change also; and as government is for the living, and not for the dead, it is the living only that has any right in it.

I trust the American People more than American Institutions.