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Quotes About Fiscal

Raising the debt limit on some levels is a ministerial act. It doesn't involve any new spending.
~ Jack Lew
It's time to stop spending money we don't have and balance the budget.
~ Joni Ernst
I am fiscally prudent and socially progressive. I believe in protecting a woman's right to choose. I believe in marriage equality.
~ Andrew Cuomo
We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
~ Winston Churchill
United States failed to match its greatly enhanced economic importance with a commensurate geopolitical role.84 Power remained disproportionately in the hands of the victorious European empires, the British and the French, but both were so constrained fiscally and domestically that they could not preserve the fruits of their victory.
~ Niall Ferguson
En ambas economías el caos fiscal se aunaba con la inflación rampante, que en Alemania evocaba la hiperinflación de 1923.Y ¿no había sido Hitler el «hijo adoptivo de la inflación»?88
~ Niall Ferguson
During his campaign, Donald J. Trump embraced the cause of fiscal responsibility and accused President Barack Obama of shackling the country with a 'mountain of debt.'
~ James B. Stewart
But if they want to really think about the fiscal future of this country, then think about how we have moved from hundreds of billions of surpluses to hundreds of billions of deficits.
~ Chaka Fattah
Restoring responsibility and accountability is essential to the economic and fiscal health of our nation.
~ Carl Levin
Ultimately, we can't just keep doubling our national debt every eight years. We have got to get that under control and not spend more than we bring in.
~ Ron Estes
If we're going to win in 2016, we need a consistent conservative: someone who has been a fiscal conservative, a social conservative, a national security conservative.
~ Ted Cruz
Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
President Reagan, Jack Kemp and other advocates of supply-side economics understood that pro-growth tax, spending and economic policies were essential to America's long-term economic and fiscal health.
~ Bob Beauprez
And I think it's a prudent, responsible way, given the scale of the emergency, the scale of the damage still facing America, that we finance these additional support for the unemployed as well as the support for small business. We think there's a good case for doing it now. We want to do it in an overall fiscally responsible way.
~ Timothy Geithner
Currently a level of unemployment of 7 percent or more seems to be required to keep inflation from accelerating, a level quite unacceptable as a permanent situation.
~ William Vickrey
History shows that tax increases during a recession are a recipe for greater unemployment and economic loss.
~ Pete Sessions
Mr. Trump's fiscal policies have produced more growth than Mr. Obama's because they were designed to incentivize businesses to invest, hire, and produce more here at home. The Obama 'stimulus,' by contrast, went for food stamps, unemployment benefits, ObamaCare subsidies, 'cash for clunkers' and failed green energy handouts.
~ Stephen Moore
President Obama's reelection started the countdown for lawmakers to address the fiscal cliff and the statutory debt limit. Unless the President and House Republicans can agree on changes to current law, the U.S. economy will be in recession by spring.
~ Mark Zandi
This Budget reflects a choice - not an easy choice, but the right choice. And when you think about it, the only choice. The choice to take the responsible, prudent path to fiscal stability, economic growth and opportunity.
~ George Pataki
I think achieving a higher fiscal stability is also a very important condition for restoring an environment which is conducive to growth.
~ Lucas Papademos
We are at crisis point. I think anybody that sees this nation as being on stable economic or fiscal ground is fooling themselves.
~ Joe Miller
'Hello my name is the Republican Party and I got a problem. I'm addicted to spending and big government.' I'd like one of them just to stand up and say that.
~ Glenn Beck
We need real leadership, Democrat, Republican and independent to stand up and say, we have to live within our means.
~ Tom Coburn
Most people think of us as this flamboyant airline, but we're really very conservative from the fiscal standpoint.
~ Herb Kelleher