Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American politician Susan Brooks.
Last updated on April 22, 2025.
Susan Lynn Wiant Brooks is an American prosecutor and politician. She is a Republican and the former U.S. Representative for Indiana's 5th congressional district. She was elected in 2012. The district includes the northern fifth of Indianapolis, as well as many of the city's affluent northern and eastern suburbs. Brooks served as the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana from 2001 to 2007.
I'm pragmatic. I like efficiency. I want to read what's in front of me and not have my hands tied.
A budget matters to people who worry about protecting and saving critical programs like Medicare and Social Security. A budget matters to younger workers who fear that more and more money will be taken from their paychecks to fund another generation's spending spree.
Remarkably, there are leaders in Washington who don't understand why it's so important for us to have a budget.
A budget matters to Americans who can't afford to see their taxes go up or lose the jobs that would be destroyed in the process.
For too long, the Democratic majority in Washington has failed to see the value in the sound model of working hard and living within your means.
I have never chosen my next job. I focus on what's in front of me, and serendipity steps in.