We shouldn't go into one big liberal fantasy that only if we had the right bureaucracy of non-smoking with the right pamphlet, every 13-year-old in America would be convinced. |
We thank the president for wishing to continue the dialogue on race last weekend, but frankly, there has been much talk on this issue and very little action of the sort which will dramatically change people's lives, |
We think you can get a balanced budget and you can get a tax cut, ... We think both can be done this year, and we're trying to find a way to make sure that we have every opportunity to both balance the budget with smaller government, with reforms, and to have tax cuts for the American people. |
We will do everything we can to find the money, not just for procurement but for training, for personnel and for the necessary power projection which is at the heart of America's ability to lead the world, |
We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something. |
We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something. |
We're going to try to find everything we can to get the bill signed, and I have every reason to believe they'll be signed, |
We're not in a values fight now but over whether the system is working. The issue is delivery. |
We're now looking ahead to what we're going to do in the next two years, next three years, but I think it's in the same model of trying to continue to move towards a reformed federal government. |
We're talking with the administration, ... It seems to me possible that there could be an administration agreement to get to a balanced budget deal in the next couple of weeks. |
We've had a bad three months, so it's a dangerous period for us, ... We have to change or we run the risk of defeat. |
We've reached many tentative possible agreements, none of which count until we've finished up the whole thing, |
Well, it depends on whether the president instructs his staff to testify. It depends on whether the attitude is obstruction or the attitude is cooperation. And, I think at the moment we don't know what will happen. |
What is the primary purpose of a political leader? To build a majority. If [voters] care about parking lots, then talk about parking lots. |
What the president should recognize is that the American people are tired of thousands of pages of regulations, of audits they don't understand by agents they can't talk with from a bureaucracy they can't control, |