Yeah, I think folks understand that a function, a proper and appropriate function of the government is to defend the Nation.

Doing nothing and continuing the status quo will result in a fiscal crisis.

It is an honor and a privilege to be here on behalf of the Trump administration.

The title could have been the taxpayer first budget.

Great countries are not destroyed from without; they rot from within.

There is no reduction in that program.

I have told this story many times, I actually sat across the desk from him in the Oval Office with my list of mandatory reforms.

If we could tax our way to growth and if we could tax our way to prosperity, every government in the world would have done it a long time ago.

I don't believe that people are willing to pay for as much government as they have.

I don't believe it is possible. In fact, I know it is not possible to balance the budget solely using the discretionary portion of the budget.

A healthy American economy is very, very different than what you have seen for the last 10 years.

I think what is so frustrating, we talked earlier today about regular language, regular English versus Washingtonian English.

Policies will drive everything, yes, sir.

I do, yes, sir.

We want to measure compassion, true compassion, by the number of people we help to get off of those programs.

I think you are absolutely doing the right thing, trying to explain to people what that real world looks like.

I am just as interested and you are I believe, in waste at the Department of Defense.

I believe in the social safety net. I really do.