Fiscal Policy Quotes

“The president believes that we have to have a responsible plan to get our budget back in order.”

“I am a fiscal conservative, and I believe in a balanced budget.”

“I have always believed that the very best economic policy is a balanced budget.”

“It's about time that we passed a balanced budget amendment.”

“I've always been a fiscal conservative. I'm a pay-as-you-go kind of guy.”

“The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil...not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.”

“We have a spending problem, not a revenue problem.”

“We have a spending problem in Washington, not a revenue problem.”

“We must restore fiscal sanity to our nation's capital.”

“Economy is the first and great article in my financial creed. The second is, pay as you go.”

“Reagan proved that deficits don't matter.”

“We are in a trap... a politician's trap... It is a pleasure-pain trap. The pleasure is to be able to vote for lower taxes. The pain is to be held responsible for higher deficits.”

“Putting the budget on a sustainable path would be a good thing for the country, and that the sooner that is done, the better.”

“A tax cut is not a cost, it is an investment in the future.”

“What a government does with tax money is as important as how much it takes.”

“The debt is a symptom of a larger problem, and that is a government that is too big, too intrusive, too costly, and too inefficient.”

“We can't just print money.”

“Fiscal responsibility is not a partisan issue; it's a matter of common sense.”

“We face a choice between a future of ever-rising debt, slow growth, and painful austerity, or a future of fiscal responsibility, strong growth, and shared prosperity.”

“A balanced budget amendment is a step in the right direction.”