White House Chiefs of Staff

There is a dignity to work, and there's a necessity to work to help the country succeed.

If you are on food stamps and you are able-bodied, we need you to go to work.

How do I go to somebody who pays their taxes and say, 'Look, I want you to give this earned income tax credit to somebody who is working here illegally? That's not defensible.'

We believe in the social safety net. We absolutely do.

The president is not a white supremacist.

We believe it is important to reduce crime. We believe that we adequately fund as Department of Justice resources.

The President does not believe he is breaking his commitment to the American people at all.

One of the things that we have been most frustrated with the Army Corps is how slow they are with many of the projects.

I am telling you that Congress vested this authority and responsibility for running this agency in the Director, and that is me. So, yes.

It is not appropriate for any government entity to push the envelope when it comes into conflict with our citizens.

I don't think your department should exist. I would abolish it tomorrow if I could.

I don't see anything in here that says I have to run a Yelp for financial services sponsored by the Federal Government.

Mitch Daniels, the Governor of Indiana, used to say we are going to hit the bad actors with a sledgehammer but we are going to enable and empower the good actors to serve more Hoosiers and more Americans.

The Director has a kind of absolute power which would frighten most of us.

Good government should not be a partisan exercise.

We assumed for the sake of doing the budget that the tax plan is deficit neutral...

Our vision is to ensure that we can pay off our debt and deal with our trillion-dollar deficits in the years ahead.

long-term workforce reductions.

The deliberative process within the executive branch will continue to play out in an iterative fashion.

I think there is an appropriate Federal role in protecting consumers. That does not mean that you have to do it through the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection.

I think he tried to make the insinuation that we were not enforcing the UDAAP statute. That is not true.

Regulation by enforcement is done. We are not doing it anymore.

We do not have the ability to make law. That is not what we are supposed to do in the executive branch.

I am open-minded to other resolutions. I am not trying to beat up on Nevada.