Mick Mulvaney Quotes & Sayings

“My dad told me something long before I was in politics, and when your dad gives you advice every single day, eventually one or two of the things stick in your mind. And he said, don't believe what people say, believe what they do.”

“I've never understood the allure of putting your name on a building that was built with taxpayers' money.”

“We cannot have another experience like we've had in my freshman class, of people saying one thing and doing another.”

“I would be embarrassed to tell you how many folks ran saying that they weren't going to spend a bunch of money, they weren't going to raise the debt ceiling, and then they went to Washington, D.C., and did exactly that.”

“There are jobs that American citizens will not do. We can talk about why that is. We can talk about how our welfare state is broken, how we encourage people not to work, but that doesn't help the farmer pick his peaches this summer.”