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Ben Quayle Quotes

Ben Quayle quotes

American Politician November 5, 1976

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Ben Quayle quote: "I love Arizona. I was raised right. Somebody has to go to..."
I love Arizona. I was raised right. Somebody has to go to Washington and knock the hell out of the place. Ben Quayle
Don't try to be somebody you're not because it doesn't work. If you try to be this perfect person or perfect persona of what you think that somebody should be when they're involved in public office, it's just not going to work. Just be yourself, stay true to your core values, and really just stay abreast of the issues. Ben Quayle
I want our leaders to lead our country to greatness, but President Obama and his misguided policies and ideology have really fundamentally changed our country in the wrong way, more so than any president in our history. Ben Quayle
Spending when the math's not there and the numbers aren't there and if they look in the social security trust fund, it's filled with IOUs because the government's been pilfering it for years on end. We have to do something. We have to start having this discussion. Ben Quayle
I welcome the President and working with him to try to get some of that medical malpractice reform so we can get the cost of health care to come down. Ben Quayle
I think the Tea Party movement is great. I think anybody who has been frustrated over the last few years with the Republicans and Democrats, when they were trying to grow government and have spending and we weren't focusing on creating jobs and get our private sector growing again, I think that's when people started to wake up. Ben Quayle
I would hope that we could have this in an adult fashion and stop demagogueing the issue anytime you talk about any substantive reforms that will actually save social security and save Medicare and save the system from imploding on itself. Ben Quayle
And that's the one thing that people do not understand is that we have very low interest rates and if those go back to historical levels or even go back to scary thoughts that they're back in the late '70s, early '80s, then that's going to really be hard to actually pay off those debts. It's going to be a - it's going to be a very big problem. Ben Quayle
Ben Quayle quote: "I would like to see this group in this Congress be starting..."
I would like to see this group in this Congress be starting the process to get ourselves on long term fiscal strong footing. Ben Quayle
I think that when we look out with our underfunded liabilities and our national debt over $14 trillion, I think if we are part of that movement to get our government spending under control, I think that would be a tremendous legacy to leave. Ben Quayle
You know, even people who talk about cutting spending and they go 'That's not the spending that I was actually talking about that you're supposed to be cutting.' Well, we have to be looking across the board. Ben Quayle
I think we should be looking at the defense and seeing where we can actually be more efficient because I think that, you know, sometimes during the contracting process, we lose some efficiencies in that regard. Ben Quayle
Ben Quayle quote: "Barack Obama is the worst President in history."
Barack Obama is the worst President in history. Ben Quayle
And in terms of entitlement reforms, we have to save them from themselves, because if we don't reform social security and we don't reform Medicare, they're going to actually implode. Ben Quayle
Ben Quayle quote: "Everyone across America is tightening their belts. The only..."
Everyone across America is tightening their belts. The only place it hasn't happened is D.C. Ben Quayle

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