Political Quotes

“let us just go back for a second and think about what we are talking about here. Over the last 5 years, the Federal Government has spent $7.8 trillion. Over the next 5 years, we are scheduled to grow from $7.8 trillion to $9 trillion. The American family would say, frankly, if we sat down with them and said, do we need to go from $7.8 trillion to $9.1 trillion, they probably would not serve us dinner that night. We are not even asking to make any difficult or serious reduction in government. All we are suggesting is, instead of the government going from $7.8 trillion to $9.1 trillion, they go to $9 trillion. We save a penny on the dollar. You cannot run away from it. You cannot escape it. You cannot hide from it. It is designed to save one penny on each dollar of Federal spending. We take those savings, and do you know what we do with them, Mr. Chairman? We help the American family. We say that we want to get rid of this marriage penalty. We also want to work with the small business community to make it easier for them to thrive, because, you know, in some ways, the small business community is synonymous with the health of the American people. So our approach here today is to try to trim some of the excess out of government, to make government more efficient and more effective. We do not see a reason why we need 150 separate job training programs and 340 programs in housing, including 103 that are inactive.”