Pete Domenici Budget Quotations

No one should kid themselves. This is not a budget that is going to have a significant impact on the fiscal policy of this country.

I am very discouraged when you add six new entitlement programs and at the same time, you are trying to say we are getting a budget under control,

Frankly, there is plenty of money in the federal budget for Social Security until the year 2037, ... Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer.

Jack Lew (President Bill Clinton's budget director) and I just made the deal, ... ... The budget bill has been agreed to.

I think we ought to go right ahead and see if we can't move toward a budget resolution that does not take the CPI in to consideration,

I think the across-the-board budget cut is if we cannot find about $4 billion in savings any other way, then we'll look to that,

The president has been promising us certain things, and the American people certain things, and this budget does the exact opposite, ... Fox News Sunday.

There's got to be some understanding on their part that if we don't get some additional give in terms of restraining some expenditures and some reform, then we may have to be on our own, producing a budget that the President wouldn't like,

These 'sense of the Senate' resolutions should not really hold up the budget because they don't really affect the budget,

This budget proposes $148.2 billion in new spending or tax credits over the next four years, ... I believe these numbers are correct, and we need to make sure that everyone understands them as the starting point for debate by this Congress.

there isn't any use talking, because the President's budget doesn't come out balanced and doesn't do anything of a permanent nature to help us solve this budget problem over the long term.

They want us to adopt this while we're here fighting over a Clinton budget that increases spending beyond anything that President George W. Bush would recommend,