Mick Mulvaney

Every penny we spend comes from the taxpayer. We thus owe it to the taxpayer to work as hard managing that money…

— Mick Mulvaney

If we had 3 percent growth, which is what we're trying to get to, what we're at, by the way, right now,…

— Mick Mulvaney

I would be embarrassed to tell you how many folks ran saying that they weren't going to spend a bunch of money,…

— Mick Mulvaney

You can't look at the tax cut on a family until you realized how - how much better off they're going to…

— Mick Mulvaney

Infrastructure is sort of that good spending in the middle, where even if you do misallocate resources a little bit, you still…

— Mick Mulvaney

We have to get the tax revenues up. That means we have to get back to a healthy American economy, grow the…

— Mick Mulvaney

The White House would love to see Obamacare taken apart all at once, bit by bit, however we can do it.

— Mick Mulvaney

Remember what Obamacare gave you. Obamacare gave you insurance but not health care. A lot of folks who were technically insured either…

— Mick Mulvaney

I really do feel like I'm doing what the people that elected me in the first place wanted me to do. I'm…

— Mick Mulvaney

If we can get to that 3 percent grow, it is $2 trillion to $2.5 trillion worth of more government revenues. It's…

— Mick Mulvaney

We have to end Medicare as we know it. We have to fix it.

— Mick Mulvaney

Bad spending, to me, in terms of its economic benefit, would be wealth transfer payments. It's a misallocation of resources.

— Mick Mulvaney

Too often in Washington, we only look at the recipient side: How does the budget affect either those who receive or don't…

— Mick Mulvaney

We cannot have another experience like we've had in my freshman class, of people saying one thing and doing another.

— Mick Mulvaney

Do you really think that Social Security disability insurance is part of what people think of when they think of Social Security?…

— Mick Mulvaney

I think the government, if you measure it in terms of the dollars out the door, about 83 percent of the government…

— Mick Mulvaney

You can provide better services for less if you get the federal government out of the way.

— Mick Mulvaney

My dad told me something long before I was in politics, and when your dad gives you advice every single day, eventually…

— Mick Mulvaney

We can't spend money on programs just because they sound good... Meals on Wheels sounds great.

— Mick Mulvaney

There is absolutely no way that the U.S. will ever default on its debt. We are not going to do that.

— Mick Mulvaney

When you grew up in a household where mom would keep the extra ketchup packets from McDonald's and keep them in a…

— Mick Mulvaney

We need people to go to work. If you're on food stamps, and you're able-bodied, we need you to go to work.…

— Mick Mulvaney

I believe, as a matter of principle, that the debt is a problem that must be addressed sooner rather than later. I…

— Mick Mulvaney

Why am I interested in deficits? The only way you balance the budget in this country long-term is through sustained economic growth.…

— Mick Mulvaney

When the conversation started to move to the things that we disagreed on, Donald Trump moved it back to the things that…

— Mick Mulvaney