Keith Ashdown People Quotations

Our Iraq presence isn't going away; the only thing going away is the people watching how the money is being spent. If you don't have anyone watching it, the precedent is that the money will be wasted.

We need to get out of the business of subsidizing people who are in harm's way.

We're supposed to be protecting the victims of the storms, not the people insuring them.

There could be a loophole of hundreds of thousands of people who would not be impacted. On a percentage of their income, they're the ones that are feeling (the cost increase) a lot, lot more. Some of us have been kicked, but they've been kicked in the teeth.

It's trickle-down contracting: You're paying a cut at every level, and it makes the final cost exponentially more expensive than it needs to be. And in almost every case, the local people who really need to be making the money are at the bottom of these upside-down pyramid schemes.

And in almost every case, the local people who really need to be making the money are at the bottom of these upside-down pyramid schemes.