American - Politician | July 21, 1967 -
We can't spend money on programs just because they sound good... Meals on Wheels sounds great.
Mick Mulvaney
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I think the government, if you measure it in terms of the dollars out the door, about 83 percent of the government stays open in a government shutdown. Social Security checks go out; military still exists. The FBI still chases bad guys. I think the consequences have been blown out of proportion.
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There are jobs that American citizens will not do. We can talk about why that is. We can talk about how our welfare state is broken, how we encourage people not to work, but that doesn't help the farmer pick his peaches this summer.
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When you grew up in a household where mom would keep the extra ketchup packets from McDonald's and keep them in a drawer just in case there came a day when you couldn't afford to buy ketchup anymore, that gets ingrained in you.
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My dad told me something long before I was in politics, and when your dad gives you advice every single day, eventually one or two of the things stick in your mind. And he said, don't believe what people say, believe what they do.
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We cannot have another experience like we've had in my freshman class, of people saying one thing and doing another.
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Infrastructure is sort of that good spending in the middle, where even if you do misallocate resources a little bit, you still have something to show for it. It's tangible; it may help economic growth and so forth.
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The White House would love to see Obamacare taken apart all at once, bit by bit, however we can do it.
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It doesn't cost money to let people keep more of their own money. It costs money to spend money you don't have, but that's another issue.
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I don't like the fact that C.F.P.B. exists, I will be perfectly honest with you.
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My reputation is as a fiscal hawk. At least, I hope that it is.
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I would be embarrassed to tell you how many folks ran saying that they weren't going to spend a bunch of money, they weren't going to raise the debt ceiling, and then they went to Washington, D.C., and did exactly that.
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