Mitch McConnell

One of my proudest moments was when I looked at Barack Obama in the eye and I said, Mr. President, you will not fill this Supreme Court vacancy.

I haven't actually been in the White House since August 6th because my impression was their approach to how to handle this was different from mine. If any of you have been around May -- since May 1st, I've said, wear you masks and practice…

Mitch McConnell cares about one thing, power, power.

I can tell you, I haven't been to the White House since August the 6th. And I personally didn't feel that they were approaching protection from this illness in the same way that I thought was appropriate for the Senate.

I haven't actually been to the White House since August 6th. Because my impression was their approach to how they handle this is different from mine, and what I insist that we do, which is to wear a mask and properly social distance.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is in the midst of a high wire act right now, which is kind of wild because if you think 72 hours ago, this nomination for Amy Coney Barrett, to be the next supreme court justice, was basically on…

This is Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says he wants all GOP senators back to work by October 19th.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has made clear full steam ahead on the confirmation process.

Our nation's leadership is diagrammable as kind of a triangle. It gets very tight at the top. There aren't many people in the top positions, Mitch McConnell, Senate majority leader, a senior citizen, a polio survivor, someone who has these…

With regard to the white supremacy issue, I want to associate myself with the remarks of Senator Tim Scott. He said it was unacceptable not to condemn white supremacists. And so I do so in the strongest possible way.

Mitch McConnell can't be bothered to negotiate, to even help out on a stimulus bill.

Notably absent from today's ceremony, Mitch McConnell, who chose to skip it, as he focuses on dishonoring Ginsburg's dying wish by trying to jam in a replacement, playing the hare in this case, rather than the turtle.

The winner of the November 3 election will be inaugurated on January 20. There will be an orderly transition, just as there has been every four years since 1792.

I think there are some republicans who are privately concerned, those that Michael alluded to as well, those who have for years now in the halls of the Capitol have whispered their worries about this president and the norms he is…

President Obama and his allies may now try to pretend this disagreement is about a person. The decision the Senate announced weeks ago remains about a principle and not a person.

If it appears to the American public that he is -- that there's one set of rules for Democrats, and there's another set of rules he's got for Republicans here, it looks like he's rigging the game.

He wants to hold the majority. He wants to stay being Majority Leader. And this is going to be sort of the crowning moment of his career to have yet one more justice on the Supreme Court if he can get him through.

The next president, whoever that may be, is going to be the person who chooses the next Supreme Court justice.

President Trump's nominee for this vacancy will receive a vote on the floor of the Senate. The Senate has more than sufficient time to process a nomination.

The Senate has more than sufficient to process a nomination.

As she climbed from the middle-class Brooklyn Jewish roots of which she was so proud into the most rarefied air of law and government, the future justice had to surmount one sexist obstacle after another. And Justice Ginsburg did not only…

Our view is this: Give the people a voice in filling this vacancy.

Senator Mitch McConnell, the Majority Leader, I'm told made clear to the President in a private phone call that while he would advocate for whoever the President selected, he believed Amy Coney Barrett would go best with where the Senate…

This nomination ought to be made by the president we're in the process of electing this year. This nomination ought to be made by the next president.

The American people should have a voice in the election of their next Supreme Court justice. Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president.