31 Quotes by Mick Mulvaney

I think the government, if you measure it in terms of the dollars out the door, about 83 percent of the government stays open in a government shutdown. Social Security checks go out; military still exists. The FBI still chases bad guys. I think the consequences have been blown out of proportion.

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 the premiums or couldn't afford the copay.

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

Infrastructure is sort of that good spending in the middle, where even if you do misallocate resources a little bit, you still have something to show for it. It's tangible; it may help economic growth and so forth.

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

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

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

It doesn't cost money to let people keep more of their own money. It costs money to spend money you don't have, but that's another issue.

I don't like the fact that C.F.P.B. exists, I will be perfectly honest with you.