Every penny we spend comes from the taxpayer. We thus owe it to the taxpayer to work as hard managing that money wisely as the taxpayer must do to earn it in the first place. Mick Mulvaney Read Quote
We need people to go to work. If you’re on food stamps, and you’re able-bodied, we need you to go to work. If you’re on disability insurance and you’re not supposed to be, you’re not truly disabled; we need you to go back to work. Mick Mulvaney Read Quote
Do you really think that Social Security disability insurance is part of what people think of when they think of Social Security? I don’t think so. It’s the fastest-growing program. It grew tremendously under President Obama. It’s a very wasteful program, and we want to try and fix that. Mick Mulvaney Read Quote
I really do feel like I’m doing what the people that elected me in the first place wanted me to do. I’m not doing it in the same fashion they thought, or that I thought, when I ran for office in 2010. But I will be doing what they wanted me to do, and that is to try to fix Washington. Mick Mulvaney Read Quote
We don’t spend money properly in Washington, D.C. We jump these massive bills to massive bills. Mick Mulvaney Read Quote
I think the government, if you measure it in terms of the dollars out the door, about 83 percent of the government stays open in a government shutdown. Social Security checks go out; military still exists. The FBI still chases bad guys. I think the consequences have been blown out of proportion. Mick Mulvaney Read Quote
We can’t spend money on programs just because they sound good… Meals on Wheels sounds great. Mick Mulvaney Read Quote
I don’t like the fact that C.F.P.B. exists, I will be perfectly honest with you. Mick Mulvaney Read Quote
