Political Quotes

Gilbert Gutknecht: “And once you start a new program you create a new constituency and that is one thing that if we have the courage to…”

On the recordApril 8, 1997
And once you start a new program you create a new constituency and that is one thing that if we have the courage to stand up and say no to any new programs, if the President wants new programs then he is going to have to find other programs that he is going to have to eliminate, and we all know there is wasteful, duplicative programs that are not working.
Said by
Gilbert Gutknecht
Republican · Minnesota

Editor's note · Context

Addressing new Washington spending programs and the need to eliminate existing ones.

Share

More from Gilbert Gutknecht

Jul 20, 2006

Let me say, and I talked to the speaker today and I know you are working on this as well, one of the things we would like to do is invite at least a dozen of them to the United States. We may smile about our meetings with the…

govinfo.gov
Jul 20, 2006

I mentioned earlier, we also need to say thank you and kudos to the families. You cannot help but think about what the families in North Dakota must feel every day. I am sure they do not know all that that group does in terms of going out…

govinfo.gov
Jul 20, 2006

I think we should share the story that the general told us about the man who worked at the military facility there. Every day, when he would come to work, he would stop, and this is a Bosnian individual, he would stop and salute the…

govinfo.gov
Jul 20, 2006

We will always remember the North Dakota boys. Especially one young man, I think his name was Lynch. He had been involved in four of these explosions. And, yes, it is true the equipment they have is specially designed to sort of take the…

govinfo.gov

Other voices in this conversation