Political Quotes

“we do know that in many cases we can have the best of both worlds. We proved it in 1997, and we can prove it again that we can reduce spending. Excuse me, we can just slow the rate of growth. We as Republicans have done nothing to cut the size of government. All we have done is slow the growth of government. If we go back and we just take a look at the wasteful spending, I have taken a look at the Education Department, I have taken a look at the Labor Department. There are billions to be found. It does not mean that spending on education is not important, but the way that we are spending on education, where a dollar comes in to Washington and only 60 to 65 cents gets back to a classroom, I believe that means that we are wasting 30 to 35 cents. We were in Milwaukee. We have been around the country listening to people at the local level about education. They are saying, we like your money but the rules and the regulations just dampen our enthusiasm and they stop us from doing what we would like to do.”