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What I wanted to do was see if we couldn't balance the budget.

Nobody thought about having more money than you could ever spend.

We need to stop spending money we don't have.

Money is not everything. We don't need billions and trillions of dollars.

Beginning to dismantle the Pentagon would save $1 trillion a year - a small government proposal if ever there was one.

A devastating commentary on the war in Iraq is that we have been unable to spend money on infrastructure.

We cannot allow anything that's called 'national defense' to justify any and all spending. We need to be very, very careful that we don't overspend and say, 'Oh, that's defense,' when perhaps it isn't.

Here we were talking about economic development, about investing billions of dollars in various programs, and I could see it wasn't billions of dollars people needed right away.