Quotes About Policy

When you have a country that's been accustomed to government spending at a certain level, it is really hard to ratchet it back.

When government borrowing and spending go up, private borrowing and spending go down.

If borrowing and spending all this money led to more jobs than we would be at full employment already.

I do not intend to dispute in any way the need for defence cuts and the need for government spending cuts in general. I do not share a not in my backyard approach to government spending reductions.

You will see the President being very, very tough on spending.

I mean, the Obama position has been, 'We think government ought to be spending this money, not the people who earn it.'

Hiding spending does not reduce spending.

Borrowing and spending is not the way to prosperity.

Well, a deficit reflects an imbalance between spending and revenue, and so narrowing it requires acting on one, the other or both.

You cannot go out and say, oh, I am going to raise all this spending, but it's not going to cost anybody any money.

You know, even people who talk about cutting spending and they go 'That's not the spending that I was actually talking about that you're supposed to be cutting.' Well, we have to be looking across the board.

Defense spending as a share of the economy dropped significantly during the early 1990s, and that was one of the things, along with other policy changes, that put us back on the path to a balanced budget.

The problem is that the economy isn't growing fast enough to accommodate the level of spending produced through the democratic process.

Raising the debt limit on some levels is a ministerial act. It doesn't involve any new spending.

Federal spending is atrocious.

The American system of political spending is so unregulated that it might make Adam Smith rethink free markets.

Sequestration was not designed to be anyone's ideal method for getting our hands around government spending, and it certainly isn't mine.

Defense is not like other discretionary spending.

Infrastructure spending does not create immediate jobs, and more than half of those jobs will pull from the pool of the already employed.

Mr. Obama's choices show how fundamentally unserious he is about deficit reduction and spending restraint.

Normally, when politicians talk about 'cutting the budget,' they really mean reducing the amount of increase. Actual spending goes up while the politicians claim to have 'cut the budget.'

After almost 50 years in which federal spending averaged about 20 percent of GDP, Joe Sestak and Nancy Pelosi took federal spending to 25 percent. You know, that's a 25 percent increase in the size of the government overnight. That's what we - that's what we've got to rein in.

We keep spending money and sending it overseas when we should be developing American energy.

You don't help the economy by spending money.