Thinker Comparison

Mitch McConnell vs. Jair Bolsonaro

Read 20 entries attributed to Mitch McConnell alongside 20 attributed to Jair Bolsonaro. Compare the wording and topic labels.

This page places 20 entries attributed to Mitch McConnell alongside 20 attributed to Jair Bolsonaro. Each selection is ordered by stored importance score. These are selections from QuoteLineage, not complete accounts of either author's work.

Topic labels present in both displayed selections: knowledge, politics, mind, time, change, life. Shared labels do not by themselves demonstrate agreement, disagreement, or influence between the authors.

Attributed to Mitch McConnell, entry #216209: "Every election we know features some illegality and irregularity, and of course that’s unacceptable. I support strong state-led voting reforms. Last year’s bizarre pandemic proced…"

Attributed to Jair Bolsonaro, entry #8445: "If one's son begins acting kind of gay, then when he is spanked he'll change his behavior."

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Mitch McConnell

1942

Politics
United States
24 quotes

Addison Mitchell McConnell III is an American politician and attorney serving as the senior United States senator from Kentucky, a seat he has held since 1985. McConnell is in his seventh Senate term and is the longest-serving senator in Kentucky history. He served from 2007 to 2025 as the leader of the Senate Republican Conference, including two stints as minority leader, and was majority leader from 2015 to 2021, making him the longest-serving Senate party leader in U.S.

"Every election we know features some illegality and irregularity, and of course that’s unacceptable. I support strong state-led voting reforms. Last year’s b…"

#knowledge

"The framers built the Senate to stop short-term passions from boiling over and melting the foundations of our republic. So I believe protecting our constitut…"

#politics

"Impeachment was never meant to be the final forum for American justice"

#justice

"The mob was fed lies. They were provoked by the President and other powerful people."

#power

"The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice. Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a ne…"

#justice

"Former President Trump's actions that preceded the riot were a disgraceful, disgraceful dereliction of duty. Trump is practically and morally responsible for…"

#beauty

"You're more likely to see Elvis again than to see this bill pass the Senate."

"He did not do his job. He didn't take steps so federal law could be faithfully executed and order restored. No. Instead, according to public reports, he watc…"

#justice

"Think of me as the Grim Reaper."

#mind

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

#time

"She was warned. She was given an explanation. Nevertheless, she persisted."

#war

"I think the testimony obviously ought to be sworn testimony. And we ought to go all the way into this and take as much time as we can to reassure the America…"

#time

"Well Mister President, here's what happened: House Democrats decided to add a poison pill the new demand is really extreme: a hard statutory cap on the numbe…"

#politics

"There was no involvement whatsoever."

"Self-government, my colleagues, requires a shared commitment to the truth and a shared respect for the ground rules of our system. We cannot keep drifting ap…"

#truth

"I can’t imagine that a Republican majority in the United States Senate would want to confirm, in a lame duck session, a nominee opposed by the National Rifle…"

#politics

"Breaking the rules to change the rules is un-American."

#change

"With regard to White House officials, it will be up to the President to decide frankly whether and when and under what circumstances members of his testify."

#humor

"Nobody is happy about losing lives but, remember, these are not draftees. These are full-time professional soldiers."

#life

"The Senate just passed the Strengthening America’s Security in the Middle East Act. I’m especially proud it includes my amendment reaffirming the importance …"

#justice
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Jair Bolsonaro

1955 – 2019

Politics
Brazil
163 quotes

Jair Messias Bolsonaro is a Brazilian politician and former military officer who served as the 38th president of Brazil from 2019 to 2023. He previously served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1991 to 2019.

"If one's son begins acting kind of gay, then when he is spanked he'll change his behavior."

#change

"These agents from the Cuban regime were also taken to Venezuela by Hugo Chávez. Today around 60 thousand of them control and interfere with every area of loc…"

#freedom

"What is a golden shower?"

#money

"I have five children. There were four men, on the fifth I got weak and a woman came out."

#family

"it's devastating to know that someone with so much influence has such a disdain for the queer community."

#knowledge

"With distance education, you help to combat Marxism."

#knowledge

"If I'm president, I'll leave UN. That institution is of no use. It's an organization of communists, of people that don't have any commitment at least to Sout…"

#Human Nature

"The mass suicide at Jonestown was the final episode of this tragic story — the end result of a personality cult around Jones, a paranoid narcissist. Jim Jone…"

#art

"I refuse any kind of support coming from supremacist groups. I recommend that, for coherence, they support the leftist candidate, who loves segregating socie…"

#Human Nature

"I defend torture. A drug dealer who acts on the streets against our children must to be immediately put on a pau-de-arara. There would be no human rights in …"

#family

"These guys are going to die in the streets like cockroaches – and that’s how it should be."

#life

"It's a mess. The next steps are the adoption of children and the legalization of pedophilia."

#family

"In Brazil, we have 1,000 penis amputations a year due to a lack of water and soap. We have to find a way to get out of the bottom of this hole."

#time

"I'm a victim of prejudice against heterosexuals."

"Pinochet should have killed more people."

#Human Nature

"What debt ? I never enslaved anyone in my life. Look, if you really look at history, the Portuguese didn’t even step foot in Africa. The blacks themselves tu…"

#life

"A South American country, a cult leader, a drug and the deaths of thousands of fanatic followers may sound like the tragic story of the. But these details co…"

#leadership

"We can't do a deal in which some off the goals are unattainable. Brazil does not owe the world anything when it comes to environmental protection."

#mind

"We even have a gay pride march and we're thinking of having a heterosexual pride also. You'll not be invited."

#mind

"The recent declarations of Olavo de Carvalho against members of the government of the Republic do not contribute to the unity of its forces and the proposed …"

#politics
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