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 to maintain that 3 percent growth. If we had been at 3 percent growth over the last ten years, the budget very nearly would be balanced in 2017. That's how big a difference it makes when… — Mick Mulvaney Copy Share
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 additional jobs. And those are 12 million jobs paying into Medicare, 12 million jobs paying into Social Security. Growth really is what's driving all of this and growth is what our focus is, which is why… — Mick Mulvaney Copy Share
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