Mitch McConnell Quotes

I'm an opposition leader. But Mr Modi is also my prime minister. Mr Modi has certain skills. He's a very good communicator.

Well, I don't know too many governors who are flaming ideologues.

We need a government, not politics. Because there's too much politics. Of course there should be debate. But there seems to be so much pettiness and not enough good faith. It is civilized to agree to disagree, and this idea is slowly disintegrating. The great statesmen of the past knew this, and I think it helps drive civilization.

I don't agree with the Tories on most things.

Stylistically speaking, Barack Obama could hardly be further from Jimmy Carter if he really had been born in Kenya.

Politicians always criticize each other in different ways.

I've often reflected on this in the past weeks as I've been following the presidential campaign: Very often, I thought it would have been great for both of these guys to sit down and be force-fed a couple of dozen episodes of Star Trek.

I don't agree with everything that any of our political leaders say or believe - that's going to happen sometimes.

If someone agrees with you they're a statesman. If someone disagrees with you, they're a politician.

A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him, he is a statesman.

I hate picking a bone with Paul Ryan; he's a friend of mine, but I think he needs to walk and chew gum at the same time.

If you're going to talk about politics, then there are going to be folks who are with you and folks that are against you.

I don't agree with Trump on everything.

Rhetorically, President Obama is a champion of bipartisanship. In practice, though, he is almost always its enemy.

I can't go out with a Republican.

Some Democrats deserve to be criticized.

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

In college, I was a fiercely committed Democrat - a meeting with Jack Kemp, then Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, challenged my blind partisanship.

I do have friends that are Republicans, and we have very spirited conversations on a whole range of issues. I am often baffled by why they are Republicans, but I enjoy the dialogue and can move beyond politics to find common ground in my personal relationships.

I do not personally agree with some of the positions that Mr. Gonzales has advocated, but that should come as no surprise, because I do not agree with many of the proposals made by the man who nominated him, President Bush.

I have yet to see someone attack Obama over his report card. A lot of people I talk to from both sides of the fence are like, 'Well, what about this economy? What about these incidents?' There are still no answers except time, but time is the answer for everything.

I've decided to cut out the part of the speech where I say anything nice about Democrats.

Does politics have to be injected into everything?

President Obama seems to think that you win by demonstrating that you're a more reasonable person than your opponents. It didn't work too badly, I'll grant, as an electoral strategy in the 2012 election.

I love hard political debate and I love beating somebody on a political point but what I'm more frustrated by is the politics where you play the man not the politics.