Political Quotes

“Well, I very much appreciate the expertise that you bring from Wyoming. The idea of cutting spending here, that's got to be the closest thing to a swear word you can say in Washington, D.C., the idea of cutting spending. Yet I just heard less than an hour ago the Democrats just raving about the wonders of Social Security and their Medicare and Medicaid programs, the three major entitlements, all of which a Democratic economist, a Republican economist, all agree that they are on a train-wreck path in a fairly short period of time. Because these entitlements are just like starting a robot, some machine that gets going. You create the law, the law gives out money to people, and it just runs. If you don't touch it, it just keeps giving out money. And the trouble is, it's giving out more money than we have. What's going to happen is you are not going to have anything to spend any money on for Defense or any other program because Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, will eat the entire budget up. What you are saying is correct. We need some of that common sense that says, wait a minute, we just can't keep running more and more and more government giveaways. It gets back to the question, do we really want to follow the model of the Soviet Union down the primrose path into just economic collapse, because we know it didn't work. It's not working well for Europe, and we know what the models are that make for a prosperous and healthy and good economy.”