Political Quotes

“There is only one cut, and that is when the number goes down. What we have done is we have slowed the growth. The government is still growing, it is still getting bigger. We are spending more money on a number of different issues which this Congress and the President have identified as priorities. In no given year, however, can we go through and say that government is smaller in 1996 than it was in 1995. This is why I think it is so upsetting when so often we go out and hear about all of those cuts in Congress, that Congress has made on government spending, and we sit there and say, no, we are spending more than what we did last year. The only thing is we have slowed the growth and tried to demonstrate some restraint, because of the issues we were dealing with. We were looking at $300 billion deficits. It is a great thing that somebody finally came here and exercised some restraint so we can get to a surplus, or that we will get to a surplus, and all we did was slow the growth. We did not cut. Sure, we eliminated some programs, but we are spending more than what we did.”