Mitch McConnell

Well, given the deficit numbers, it -- it really ought not to be a $1 trillion spending bill. I think we can start by saying that.

We will hold Obama to his campaign promise to go through the federal budget page by page, line by line, eliminating those programs we don't need.

Troubled automakers cannot expect taxpayers' help without a serious commitment to change their ways; permanently.

One thing is clear any solution will be a bipartisan solution. Both sides have to work together and we will stay here until the answer is yes.

One thing is clear: Any solution will be a bipartisan solution. Both sides have to work together. And we will stay here until the answer is yes.

It's a horrible piece of legislation, richly deserves to be defeated.

It's a horrible piece of legislation, richly deserves to be defeated.

It's a horrible piece of legislation that richly deserves to be defeated.

Senate Republicans have agreed to allow debate on a Democratic bill to pull troops out of Iraq.

I welcome the debate as a way of airing what he calls the extraordinary progress in Iraq over the last six months.

Listen, this is behind us. We will have a new Idaho senator soon. We expect him to resign.

Think of the irony. Columbia University, home of the core curriculum that prizes an in-depth understanding of Western civilization and the free exchange of ideas, is bringing to its campus a state sponsor of terror.

Listen, this is behind us. We will have a new Idaho senator soon. We expect him to resign.

This would make disappear all the goodwill that Larry Craig may have built up by Republicans.

He's not been here this week. You would have to address that question to him.

He has not been here this week. You'd have to address that question to him.

This is no small matter. It's a big issue, a big problem. And it requires broad bipartisan cooperation to bring a bill like this to conclusion.

If the situation does not improve, we're going to need to see changes.

If the Iraqis make progress, we leave. If they don't, we leave. This is not a choice. It is a mandate for defeat that al Qaeda desperately wants.

Welcome to the Senate. I mean, we're not stalling. We're -- we're using, at the risk of being redundant, the power of a robust minority to guarantee that we get fair treatment. Now, we're happy to have this debate. We're ready to have this…

We're happy to have Joe Lieberman, Democratic candidate for vice president in 2000, supporting the president.

It's his last chance. The president made it clear. You do it now or we do leave.

What I think the voters said was, they were dissatisfied with the lack of progress in Iraq.

You change strategy when things are not working.

I intend to support the president enthusiastically.