19 Quotes by Ben Quayle

  • Author Ben Quayle
  • Quote

    I love Arizona. I was raised right. Somebody has to go to Washington and knock the hell out of the place.

  • Tags
  • Share

  • Author Ben Quayle
  • Quote

    And in terms of entitlement reforms, we have to save them from themselves, because if we don't reform social security and we don't reform Medicare, they're going to actually implode.

  • Tags
  • Share

  • Author Ben Quayle
  • Quote

    I think we should be looking at the defense and seeing where we can actually be more efficient because I think that, you know, sometimes during the contracting process, we lose some efficiencies in that regard.

  • Tags
  • Share

  • Author Ben Quayle
  • Quote

    I would hope that we could have this in an adult fashion and stop demagogueing the issue anytime you talk about any substantive reforms that will actually save social security and save Medicare and save the system from imploding on itself.

  • Tags
  • Share

  • Author Ben Quayle
  • Quote

    You know, even people who talk about cutting spending and they go 'That's not the spending that I was actually talking about that you're supposed to be cutting.' Well, we have to be looking across the board.

  • Tags
  • Share

  • Author Ben Quayle
  • Quote

    And that's the one thing that people do not understand is that we have very low interest rates and if those go back to historical levels or even go back to scary thoughts that they're back in the late '70s, early '80s, then that's going to really be hard to actually pay off those debts. It's going to be a - it's going to be a very big problem.

  • Tags
  • Share



  • Author Ben Quayle
  • Quote

    Spending when the math’s not there and the numbers aren’t there and if they look in the social security trust fund, it’s filled with IOUs because the government’s been pilfering it for years on end. We have to do something. We have to start having this discussion.

  • Share