We are going to fight for spending cuts this week, next week, next month, next year.
I think we can all agree that funding and money does not necessarily improve education.
Since we are so short of funds, we need to see some real efficiencies that actually enhance education without driving up costs.
The President says his budget is a plan for winning the future, but you cannot win the future for our children with borrowed money.
I believe you are a strong administrator. I think you have the ability to do that.
if we get entrenched in spending at 25 percent of GDP, we are going to have a very difficult time getting back there.
We need a dramatic course correction. We need to get the message. We need to get in sync with reality of what is happening in the world toda...
We cannot approve, and I do not think will approve, an 11-percent increase in education funding.
I know Admiral Mullen of the Joint Chiefs said our debt is the greatest threat to national security.
Well, I know we took it over. We had a fight over that.
We are sending more students, we are spending more money, and we are getting less for it.
You are proposing to increase that much. They are not going to be increased that much because we do not have the money.
We cannot go forward on the bald assumption that, somehow, we can appropriate and authorize spending based on a tax that is not going to be ...
There is a soft bigotry of low expectations.
the $300 to $400 billion we spend, where money is offshored to bring in oil, is a huge, a huge burden on the American people.
I was disappointed deeply that the stimulus package... only had about 3 percent of the budget for roads and bridges.
I think there is zero chance of us passing such a tax as this.
I cannot believe that the President continues to insist that we are going to be paying down debt on this budget.
