Program Cuts Quotes

The public understands that the government is broke, but many still don't want to cut programs they enjoy or depend on.

I don't think college wrestling is in danger of extinction by any means. But I am concerned if one program drops.

You cannot go to someone who is 65 or 70 years of age and tell 'em, 'This program that you retired relying on is now being pulled out from underneath you.'

When budget cuts happen - which has been happening a lot in this country - after-school athletics and after-school music are some of the first things to go.

At the moment, in Britain we're facing such enormous cutbacks in education programs and music programs and art programs that you feel you are knocking your head against a brick wall.

The Republicans want to turn Social Security into a “no frills” program. The only problem is that the Republican idea of a frill is eating food.

I am going to put money into education at the expense of other programs.

We will cut programs, we will try to rein in the size of the bureaucracy. We will bring federal pay scales that have become so exaggerated into line with market rates.

The arts are usually the first thing to be cut in schools or regional programs.

Programs that bring the arts to young kids are always the first to be cut. It's mind-boggling to me.

This administration is cutting the programs that our Nation and its citizens need most, while dissolving the safety nets created to protect the elderly and less fortunate in this wealthy Nation.

Democrats will play the old Washington game of calling reductions in the rate of growth of spending for any program a 'cut'.

Unfortunately, the music programs are being stripped out of the schools these days. We have to change that.

Medicaid provides health care to our neediest citizens. While other states have had to cut Medicaid rolls and benefits already, Delaware has not. But the President's proposed budget would shift tens of millions of dollars of cost to the states, raising the real possibility of program cuts.