Quotes About Fiscal

If you believe that health care is a public good to be guaranteed by the state, then a single-payer system is the next best alternative. Unfortunately, it is fiscally unsustainable without rationing.

Conservative Republicans are back. We're in the fight for fiscal discipline and limited government, and we are on the side of the American people.

Higher taxes never reduce the deficit. Governments spend whatever they take in and then whatever they can get away with.

Government spending is taxation. When you look at this, I've never heard of a poor person spending himself into prosperity; let alone I've never heard of a poor person taxing himself into prosperity.

The revenue of the country, levied almost insensibly to the taxpayer, goes on from year to year, increasing beyond either the interests or the prospective wants of the Government.

Obviously a Conservative government will always leave taxes lower than they have been under Labour. Those things go with the territory of the Conservative Party.

The message from the United States and Europe is that governments must live within their means.

Those policies - more taxes, more regulation, more debt, more spending, more government - will make American worse. It just will, in my view.

Governments don't reduce deficits by raising taxes on the people; governments reduce deficits by controlling spending and stimulating new wealth.

The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.

Someone has to stay on the line and say, no, we can do this by cutting spending and reducing the size of government. That's what I was committed to doing.

A responsible government does not triple the national debt in eight years.

As a fiscal conservative, I think that our government should pay for itself.

The government is determined to continue the process of fiscal consolidation and structural reform in order to secure sound public finances and improve the country's international competitiveness.

If you were starting from scratch to invent an instrument that could impose fiscal discipline, the last one on earth you would come up with is the United States government.

A Tory government with a decent mandate seems the only hope of tackling the fiscal catastrophe responsibly.

The government is currently experiencing withdrawal symptoms, and we musn't feed the habit by injecting more tax dollars into it.

No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity.

The massive debt we have racked up to finance our wasteful government is pulling down growth today. Gross debt over 90 percent of GDP weakens growth now. Not tomorrow - now.

We've got to have major health care reform because that is the 800-pound gorilla. That is the thing that can swamp the boat fiscally for the United States.

I know the exploding cost of health care is at the root of our long-term fiscal challenges.

Too often in recent history liberal governments have been wrecked on rocks of loose fiscal policy.

Past experience with fiscal austerity at home and overseas strongly suggests that it is best for the economy's long-run performance to restrain government spending rather than raise taxes.

Let's tell the truth. Mr. Reagan will raise taxes, and so will I. He won't tell you. I just did.