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“The polio vaccine has saved millions of lives and held out the promise of eradicating a terrible disease. Efforts to undermine public confidence in proven cures are not just uninformed — they’re dangerous.”
— Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), who battled polio as a child, warned on Friday that anyone seeking a Senate confirmation should “steer clear” of associating with any efforts to undermine public confidence in the polio vaccine, the Washington Post reports.
“We’re in a very, very dangerous world right now, reminiscent of before world war two. Even the slogan is the same. ‘America First.’ That was what they said in the ’30s.”
–Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), in an interview with the Financial Times.
“Within the party Ronald Reagan once led so capably, it is increasingly fashionable to suggest that the sort of global leadership he modeled is no longer America’s place. … But let’s be absolutely clear: America will not be made great again by those who are content to manage our decline.”
“I know it’s become quite fashionable in some circles to disregard the global interests we have as a global power. To bemoan the responsibilities of global leadership. To lament the commitment that has underpinned the longest drought of great power conflict in human history. … This is idle work for idle minds. And it has no place in the United States Senate.”
— Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a key Ukraine supporter, who has been loudly defending his decision to move on from the border fight after his conference rejected the compromise that Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) hammered out with Democrats, reports Punchbowl News.
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A new Monmouth poll finds just 6% of respondents approve of Sen. Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) job performance, while 60% disapprove. In contrast, Chuck Schumer has a 21% approval rating and Mike Johnson is at 17%.
“I like Mitch McConnell. And if you quote me on that, I’ll deny it.”>/h3>
— Sen. Peter Welch (D-VT), quoted by Politico.
“Pardon the morbidity, but I really have to say what everybody is (or should be) saying about what happened with Mitch McConnell yesterday. … Imagine if that had happened to Donald Trump. Or Joe Biden. … Our politics would be upended in the blink of an eye. The margin is that thin. … But this is what living in a gerontocracy is like.”
“I hit my head, but I didn’t hit it that hard. Nice try.”
— Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) was asked by CNN for the first time since returning to the U.S. Senate for his thoughts on Donald Trump’s indictment.
“I’m gonna try to help explain to the American people that defeating the Russians in Ukraine is the single most important event going on in the world right now… there should be a bipartisan support for this.”
— Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), on Fox News.
“What in the world is going on? Has the Biden administration just dialed the sensitivity of our radars all the way up? If so, what are the objects that we are just now noticing for the very first time? Are they benign science projects and wayward weather balloons, or something more nefarious that we’ve somehow been missing all this time?”
— Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), quoted by The Hill.
