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“If Mitch McConnell were a hound dog, even the fleas would stay away from him.”
― Matt Jones, Mitch, Please!: How Mitch McConnell Sold Out Kentucky

“I’m just an old hillbilly so I can tell you hillbilly women are the hardest women to get acquainted with you’ll ever find,” he tells me. “They’s tough; you gotta watch ’em. They don’t trust nobody.”
― Matt Jones, Mitch, Please!: How Mitch McConnell Sold Out Kentucky

“Yet as I talked to him in Hardinsburg, he had the look of a man who didn’t feel he’d won much of anything. He spoke of being weary of the personal fights and then looked me directly in the eye. “Matt, I won’t tell you what to do and whether you should run against him or not. But know this: he will try to destroy you. He did it to me, and I don’t even matter to him. It will be worse with you.”
― Matt Jones, Mitch, Please!: How Mitch McConnell Sold Out Kentucky

“Leadership, in part, is about how you make people feel and whether you can lift up those around you.”
― Matt Jones, Mitch, Please!: How Mitch McConnell Sold Out Kentucky

“While they’ve never had political disputes with those in their community, Becky does recall an encounter with a Republican door knocker that particularly riled her. “I explained that I was a Democrat, and he told me—can you believe this?—he told me he’d pray for me.” She laughs. “I didn’t know what to say, so I just told him I’d pray for him too.VIII I was so mad. I came in and told Harold, ‘Now I have to pray for him because I told him I was going to, but I can’t do it right now because I’m too upset.’ It”
― Matt Jones, Mitch, Please!: How Mitch McConnell Sold Out Kentucky