Political Quotes

“And, as we go through this audit, I just want to let the gentleman from Wisconsin know that for the last year and a half we have gone through this process at the education department, we have gone through this process at the Labor Department, we have gone through this process at the Corporation for National Service where we have audited them or we, you know, found out. We have done this for the National Endowment for the Arts, and it is very, very consistent. The money does not get to the places that it is intended to go, that we are not making the difference. So anybody who believes, even if we agreed with every mission that the Federal Government has taken on, and I think you and I probably do not necessarily agree that everything the Federal Government is doing is something that the Federal Government ought to be doing, but even if you agreed with every mission that Washington has assumed today, there is no doubt in my mind that there is a lot of waste, fraud and abuse in the system, that we could deliver better results with the money that we have today and at the same time deliver a tax cut back to the American people.”