The spirit of Richard Nixon's secret plan lives on (Jim Young/Reuters)



The spirit of Richard Nixon's secret plan lives on (Jim Young/Reuters)



One of the things I found in a short campaign against Ted Kennedy was that when I said, for instance, that I wanted to eliminate the Department of Education, that was used to suggest I don’t care about education [...] So will there be some that get eliminated or combined? The answer is yes, but I’m not going to give you a list right now.

Mitt Romney on whether he'd cut any cabinet agencies to balance the budget:Of course, given that Mitt Romney has already come out strongly in favor of Paul Ryan's plan to end Medicare as we know it, the secret's already out.