To a certain extent, I have to be the president's bad cop from time to time. I have to look people in the eye and tell them, 'No, we don't have enough money for that.' That is not a very… — Mick Mulvaney Copy Share Image
We're looking for stuff everyone agrees is a complete waste of time. Many agencies have forgotten how to deregulate. It's been so long since somebody asked them to look backwards. — Mick Mulvaney Copy Share Image
Every penny we spend comes from the taxpayer. We thus owe it to the taxpayer to work as hard managing that money wisely as… — Mick Mulvaney Copy Share Image
If we had 3 percent growth, which is what we're trying to get to, what we're at, by the way, right now, we're trying… — Mick Mulvaney Copy Share Image
I would be embarrassed to tell you how many folks ran saying that they weren't going to spend a bunch of money, they weren't… — Mick Mulvaney Copy Share Image
You can't look at the tax cut on a family until you realized how - how much better off they're going to be in… — Mick Mulvaney Copy Share Image
Infrastructure is sort of that good spending in the middle, where even if you do misallocate resources a little bit, you still have something… — Mick Mulvaney Copy Share Image
We have to get the tax revenues up. That means we have to get back to a healthy American economy, grow the economy so… — Mick Mulvaney Copy Share Image
The White House would love to see Obamacare taken apart all at once, bit by bit, however we can do it. — Mick Mulvaney Copy Share Image
Remember what Obamacare gave you. Obamacare gave you insurance but not health care. A lot of folks who were technically insured either couldn't afford… — Mick Mulvaney Copy Share Image
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… — Mick Mulvaney Copy Share Image
If we can get to that 3 percent grow, it is $2 trillion to $2.5 trillion worth of more government revenues. It's 12 million… — Mick Mulvaney Copy Share Image
Bad spending, to me, in terms of its economic benefit, would be wealth transfer payments. It's a misallocation of resources. — Mick Mulvaney Copy Share Image
