American - Politician | July 21, 1967 -
I've never understood the allure of putting your name on a building that was built with taxpayers' money.
Mick Mulvaney
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Remember what Obamacare gave you. Obamacare gave you insurance but not health care. A lot of folks who were technically insured either couldn't afford the premiums or couldn't afford the copay.
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Bad spending, to me, in terms of its economic benefit, would be wealth transfer payments. It's a misallocation of resources.
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You can provide better services for less if you get the federal government out of the way.
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I believe, as a matter of principle, that the debt is a problem that must be addressed sooner rather than later. I also know that fundamental changes are needed in the way Washington spends and taxes if we truly want a healthy economy. This must include changing our government's long-term fiscal path, which is unsustainable.
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There is absolutely no way that the U.S. will ever default on its debt. We are not going to do that.
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We don't spend money properly in Washington, D.C. We jump these massive bills to massive bills.
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We have to get the tax revenues up. That means we have to get back to a healthy American economy, grow the economy so that you make more money. I make more money, ordinary Americans make more money, and so does the government. That helps lessen the deficit.
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We have to end Medicare as we know it. We have to fix it.
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To a certain extent, I have to be the president's bad cop from time to time. I have to look people in the eye and tell them, 'No, we don't have enough money for that.' That is not a very popular thing to do in Washington.
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The O.M.B. director puts together the budget. It handles every executive order. It is the clearing house for every single federal regulation. It has input into all the management of all of the federal agencies... It is involved with everything. And I thought, 'That's where I want to be.'
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I really do feel like I'm doing what the people that elected me in the first place wanted me to do. I'm not doing it in the same fashion they thought, or that I thought, when I ran for office in 2010. But I will be doing what they wanted me to do, and that is to try to fix Washington.
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