David Stockman Quotes

If you really want to live like a Republican, vote Democratic because we give you a better economy.

As one person said to me , Republicans know [Donald] Trump is a stain on their party.

When the Republican Party is no longer the party of fiscal conservatism then clearly I would argue that we've lost our way.

I think we have got to get the Republicans and the Democrats to get back to what I call the fiscal conservative, the issues that drive the tea parties.

In the Republican party, crazy is a constituency.

I was one of the hardest-hitting conservatives on George W. Bush. Republicans didn't like me on George W. Bush. Republicans still don't like me on many things. If any Republican thinks I've been hard on Mitt Romney or Newt Gingrich or any of these guys, wait until Mitt Romney gets into office. I'll hold his feet to the fire just as much.

Naturally, I'm conservative; I'm a Republican. I always was.

Since 1980, we've used reconciliation 22 times, and out of those times, Republicans used it 16 times. So, earth to my Republican friends, you can have your option but you cannot change these facts. They're in the Congressional Record.

Page one of any economic plan to get America working is to give a pink slip to the current resident in the White House.

It is not about Republicanism, it's about conservatism.

I think you're going to see a number of Democrats that do want to see us grapple with spending.

Republicans profess to be against deficits, but they are experts at creating and exacerbating deficits.

To be fair, Republicans are not blameless. The deficit began to spiral out of control on President Bush's watch.

A nation is not a budget, no matter how much ideologues want it to be so.

The budget is looked upon in the Congress as a way for a political party to promote itself.

The phrase 'private option' itself has become politically toxic.

Back during the campaign, there were a lot of questions: Is Trump really a conservative? A lot of questions about it.

Clinton was a pretty good president for a Republican.

Every day, I talk to Democratic and Republican colleagues with lots of ideas about the work we should be doing.

I think the economics of this country is intricately linked to the politics of this country and the two cannot be separated.

Republicans are being counseled to move the party to the left, but in my experience, those who advocate more liberal policies for the GOP are wrongheaded or Democrats, or both.

If I hear one more Republican tell me about balancing the budget, I am going to strangle them.

Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich represent the big government frugal socialist wing of the party. And I represent the true constitutional conservative wing of our party.

I think Ted Cruz is a very mean-spirited guy. You can see it from how the Republican Party responds to him.

David Jolly is the only Republican I could find who's really saying Donald Trump, you're out, forget it, this is unacceptable, this is beyond the pale.