Political Quotes

“I have never supported the sequestration. I always thought it was a big mistake. These are across-the-board, mindless cuts that say every priority in government is identical to the other. That is not the case. If you had a problem in your family budget and you had to reduce some spending and you had money put aside for your mortgage payment, your rent payment, or your family food budget, and maybe some money for a weekend trip, you wouldn't identically cut every category. You may give up that weekend trip in order to be able to save the roof over your family or put food on the table. Sequestration says every priority in government is the same. It is also not directed to where we need to go to reduce the deficit. Once again, sequestration primarily applies to domestic discretionary spending. It provides a fourth round of cuts when we have already had cuts over the last 3 years. For the agencies that are affected, it is equivalent to about a 10-percent cut. You can't do that without seriously affecting the mission of the agencies, and that is wrong. That is why I have said from the beginning, let's replace sequestration. March 1 came; sequestration came; people woke up the next day and said, What is the big deal? Well, we are finding out what the big deal is all about.…”