We are going to make every effort to try to lock up the surplus in payroll taxes for Social Security and Medicare, ... Our tax cut doesn't come from Medicare. |
We aren't going to do this alone, ... We're going to go out there and tell the president 'look, the ball's in the president's hands.' |
We believe America should be run from the bottom line, not from the top down, ... Every time we cut taxes, we make government less important and people across the country more important. |
We just really do not have the kind of bold document that we would like to see that would be a message to people that there really is change in Washington, that the era of big government is over, |
We should start together. The president has started this race from Chicago which is why this budget isn't balanced, |
We want to ... begin to solve the Social Security problem for three generations and also help American families today to get some of their money back, and that's precisely what our plan will do, and I think the American people will embrace it. |
What I fear most about a commission is compromise, ... Because compromise means we lose. |
When Republicans took control of Congress in January 1995, the CBO said the deficit under the President's recommended budget policies for FY 1996 would be $211 billion. We knew we could do better. |
When we give a subsidy, the benefits to the public ought to exceed the benefits to the company. When it doesn't, that's our definition of corporate welfare. |