[Calling the president's plan a] lame-duck budget, ... The president said the era of big government is over, but he keeps sending us things ... kind of like Santa Claus. |
A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go ... Getting involved in ethnic, religious civil wars is a recipe for disaster. |
Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles. |
And I think over time [Summers will] learn that you just got to be able to control yourself a little bit. |
But I really don't have any comments about the whole thing. This is up to Governor Bush to decide, and it's just that simple. |
Everybody knows the system is not accurate, and we need to make it accurate, not for purposes of balancing the budget, not for purposes of our priorities or their priorities, |
First and foremost, we believe in tax cuts, |
He's got strong convictions, maybe he's thinking that is what he's got to do. |
I didn't read anything in there that didn't say that he didn't do a good job, that he was praised by a lot of people he worked with, |
I think most of the programs will not come to pass in a Republican Congress that believes in smaller government, lower taxes, more individual freedom, and more choice by people back home, |
I think the president is a little tone deaf on this one. |
If the president forces us to choose between his raising taxes or raiding Social Security to fund his expansion of government, his budget is dead on arrival, ... A lame duck president should not be able to derail us on the way toward retiring the national debt, tax relief and saving Social Security. |
If we don't cut taxes, we'll invent emergencies to spend the money on, |
If we intend to provide a better life, and a better world, for future generations, we can't ignore the quality of the environment we leave them. |
If we'll all just change the culture of this city a little bit and if we'll all look to be a little bit creative and a little bit imaginative, we can make government much more effective, much more efficient, ... We can save a penny on a dollar and we can empower the American family one more time. |