Quotes About Fiscal

Beyond monetary policy, fiscal policy has traditionally played an important role in dealing with severe economic downturns.

Traditionally, the way deficits have been cut is you hold expenditures more or less constant in real dollars and then let growth come in to fill it up.

Caution, not exuberance, should be our fiscal motto.

Quite soon, the Rudd Government's attempts to stave off a recession by fiscal sugar hits and propping up uncompetitive businesses will come to seem like putting off the inevitable at unsustainable cost. The public, if not the government, will come to appreciate, in former British Prime Minister Jim Callaghan's words, that 'you can't spend your way out of a recession'. It

For the postwar peace, he preferred to minimize direct government intervention and manipulate the economy through fiscal and other incentives.

Restoring responsibility and accountability is essential to the economic and fiscal health of our nation.

In fact, Bush's tax cuts increased the amount of revenue collected by more than 30 percent from his first year as president to his last, just as Reagan's and Kennedy's tax cuts increased federal revenue after they were passed. As economist Thomas Sowell argued, "Obama knew then that tax rates and tax revenues do not automatically move in the same direction. In other words, he is lying when he talks as if tax rates and tax revenues move together.

I think growing an economy is a good way to help with a deficit, but ultimately, it's about fiscal discipline and responsible spending - and smart decisions.

I am specifically concerned about the idea that the legislative process is one that gets characterized the way it is as the 'fiscal cliff.' At the end of the day, the United States is the biggest economy in the world, and the dollar is the reserve currency in the world. I think it behooves us to act in a much more responsible way.

You can't spend your way to prosperity.

In coming to the Congress as a new Member and becoming a fellow Blue Dog, we have had an opportunity to share and really spend a great deal of time in examining the challenges that our Nation finds itself in in getting its fiscal house in order.

You cannot just keep borrowing more and more and keep spending more and more without eventually having a day of reckoning.

We're failing when it comes to controlling spending.

In an economy where public spending is extremely important, the governments must spend, they must spend more but at the same time you can't afford to be reckless and do away with all kinds of fiscal prudence.

Having said that, I believe we must not compound the natural disaster of Katrina by creating a fiscal disaster in Congress - it is our duty to ensure that we reign in other government spending in any event, and especially in this time of national emergency.

My dad was fiscally conservative, and I was influenced by that. He didn't believe in spending more than you had because it gets you into trouble.

I came to Congress to help reduce spending.

With its record spending and deficits, the Obama administration has shown little interest in taking fiscal responsibility. That is a mistake.

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

The state is out of control, the state is on a spending binge, the state has to stop putting itself in a hole that's getting deeper and deeper and deeper.

Borrowing and spending is not the way to prosperity.

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.

I am perfectly happy to compromise and work with anybody: Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians - I'll work with Martians if - and the if is critical - they're willing to cut spending and reduce the debt.

I think what they're looking for is for us to keep our promises and to do the simple things, like cutting spending and being responsible.