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If the administration wants cooperation, it will have to begin to move in our direction.

What will happen is the bills will start out the way we like them; in order to move them - we'll probably have to make compromises. That's the way the legislative process works when it's functioning.

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The people who would call me an obstructionist overlook some inconvenient facts.

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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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We all got here from somewhere else going back in our lineage. And I think these gratuitous attacks on Americans who got here recently or whose parents got here recently need to stop.

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The new troops in Iraq need to be Iraqi troops.

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The border is way more porous than it should be, and I think we'd be open to discussing anything that enhances border security.

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Things happen in American politics in the political center. If the President will meet us in the center, there are things we can accomplish.

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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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I think we know enough now to know that Donald Trump is doing the same kinds of things that Jeb Bush would have done or Marco Rubio would have done or Mitt Romney would have done.

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And this year, when we end the cruel, defeatist practice of passing children who cannot read into fourth grade, and when our most diligent students begin to graduate from high school in 11 years, and get a head start on college costs with the dollars they earned through their hard work, others will take notice of Indiana yet again.

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NATO is the most important military alliance in world history.

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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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America being a force is a lot more than building up the Defense Department.

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The Senate is not the sort of place where instant gratification, I should say, is very likely.

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It's time Congress got its priorities straight.

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There is a lot of room for improvement in Social Security. We owe our children the most financially sound system possible. They will have paid into it their entire working lives. They deserve to be protected by it. for our children and grandchildren.

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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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The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice.

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After adding trillions to the debt on big-government policies most Americans didn't ask for and which we couldn't afford, Democratic leaders say they need more money, which they intend to take from small business, even though small businesses create the majority of new jobs.

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I certainly would like to see the war on coal come to an end.

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Today, Democrats not only have the White House; they have the Senate too. So we have to be realistic about what we can and cannot achieve, while at the same recognizing that realism should never be confused with capitulation.

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Let me speak for myself: The Russians are not our friends.

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I don't in any way think the American people rejected the Republican Party, or we'd be in a lot worse shape than we are.

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America's a land of second opportunities.

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When you hang the 'bipartisan' tag on something, the perception is that differences have been worked out, and there's a broad agreement that that's the way forward.

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We're not gonna misread our mandate.

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We're a country of five-second sound bites and 30-second commercials. Eight years of one person is just too much.

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I don't think there should be a litmus test on judges, no matter who the president is.

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The money that goes into Social Security is not the government's money. it's your money. You paid for it.

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The majority in the Senate is prepared to restore the Senate's traditions and precedents to ensure that regardless of party, any president's judicial nominees, after full and fair debate, receive a simple up-or-down vote on the Senate floor.

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It just doesn't occur to an American that someone else will solve their problems. Americans take pride in solving problems for themselves. And if we fail, we get back up and try again. It's what we do. It's who we are.

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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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A reporter asked recently, 'What keeps you up at night?' I replied that I generally sleep well, but if I ever do have trouble, I don't have to count sheep. I count all the states I'm glad I'm not the governor of.

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The debt they ran up in the first year of the Obama administration is bigger than the last four years of the Bush combined.

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You can give to Americans for Prosperity or something else - a variety of different ways to push back against the party of government.

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By their own admission, leaders of the Republican Revolution of 1994 think their greatest mistake was overlooking the power of the veto. They gave the impression they were somehow in charge when they weren't.

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