Marcia L. Fudge Quotes

Everyone is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditure.

My approach to cutting spending as president, is to do a ten percent across the board cut of all federal agencies, and then ask each of my new agency heads to find another ten percent by drilling down. That's what you do in business to come up with approximately 20 percent cuts for the first fiscal year budget.

What you don't do, if you're an adult, is decide that you're going to budget things through a sequester. What does that word have to do with budgeting? It's like if you have a family budget and go, 'We really don't know what to take out economically from the budget, so we're going to whack out protein for this week.'

A budget is a moral document of a nation’s priorities.

Budgets reflect our priorities, who we are as a nation, what we're going to put first, and emphasize and invest.

Who's going to do a better job of spending your money? You or the government?

We are worried about the size of the deficit, which is why the president is pleased that the House and Senate have followed his lead in cutting the deficit in half over the next five years.

Save the taxpayer's money by canceling the Ares 1 and V.

In a time of tight budgets, difficult choices have to be made. We must make sure our very limited resources are spent on priorities. I believe we should have no higher priority than investing in our children's classrooms and in their future.

The Pentagon budget, like all government spending, is an expression of priorities.

Look, I am not worried about Washington cutting too much spending too fast. I mean, the kinds of spending cuts we're talking about just right now are $100 billion out of a $3.7 trillion budget.

Budgets are blueprints and priorities.

Sequestration is leverage that should not be given up easily.

When people see the budget, they're going to say, 'Oh, my God, I wanted a tax cut, but I didn't know what you were going to do to health care and to Medicare and national defense.'

I was able to promote a strong defense budget when it could have been cut a lot more severely.

Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.

In a budget this massive, there are certainly areas where I think we could do much better.

I've enjoyed programming on NPR, but 'we're broke' and therefore all spending must be reduced.

I think what both Republicans and Democrats need to do and the leaders on both sides is to recognize that if sequester takes place, it would be disastrous for our national defense and very frankly for a lot of very important domestic programs. They have a responsibility to come together, find the money necessary to de-trigger sequester.

The truth is that as we move forward, if one side says we can't raise any taxes on anybody or any interest, and the other side says we can't cut anything, we're obviously not going to make progress on this. And our interest is in making progress on this.

If we can't find cuts in the defense budget, we're not looking carefully enough.

There is no question that we are in a period in which we are going to have to use those sources to fund about 35 million dollars a year that used to be paid for by the federal government.

You may think my business is to make appropriations, but it is not. It is to prevent their being made.

When it comes to budget cuts, everyone wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.

A budget in difficult times can and must serve the people for whom it is designed.