Quotes About Fiscal

We cannot hope to achieve full employment and sustain it until we have mastered inflation.

I'm quite worried about the fiscal imbalances that we've got and what that might mean in terms of financial crisis ahead.

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

Under President Obama, we have spent more money - he has spent more money than any other president in this history, actually, the combined total from Washington up to George W. Bush. President Obama has racked up more spending, $1 trillion deficits. And it's time that he join us in this effort to get our fiscal house in order.

Now make no mistake, I think we need a strong dose of fiscal conservatism in Washington, D.C.

You have to starve the Beast. That's one of the most important things about tax cuts. If you leave the money in Washington, it's going to be spent.

The American people know what's necessary to get this economy moving again. It's fiscal discipline in Washington, D.C. and across-the-board tax relief for working families, small businesses and family farms.

California is going to take themselves off the cliff culturally and economically, fiscally. They are going to be at the trough in Washington wanting a bailout.

I think there is a shared sense of urgency in Washington on fiscal issues.

We must cut federal spending - every wasted dollar, every low priority program, and every unconstitutional overreach - every day.

Make no mistake: I will work with both Democrats and Republicans to cut wasteful spending and reduce our debt in a balanced, responsible way.

As a taxpayer, I want to assure you that Republicans are doing everything we can to reduce wasteful spending.

Big government conservatives are spending trillions and wasting billions. Republicans are no longer the party of fiscal conservancy, but the party of runaway spending and corruption.

I watched Reagan turn around the country by lowering taxes and controlling spending, and I'm applying the same principles.

I will not accept a new wave of fiscal retrenchment, of belt-tightening, without asking people at the top to make their contribution, to make an additional contribution. I don't think you can ask people on middle and low incomes, who, after all, are the vast majority of the British population, to bear the brunt of this adjustment.

There are only three ways to meet the unpaid bills of a nation. The first is taxation. The second is repudiation. The third is inflation.

Our debt is out of control. What was a fiscal challenge is now a fiscal crisis. We cannot deny it; instead we must, as Americans, confront it responsibly. And that is exactly what Republicans pledge to do.

Without a doubt, first thing we should do is clean up our fiscal house, and that starts with balancing our budgets and digging out of this red ink. We cannot expect to continue in this fashion and remain the leader of the free world.

The American people know that we cannot spend our way to prosperity.

At the federal level, the fiscal stimulus of 2008 and 2009 supported economic output, but the effects of that stimulus faded; by 2011, federal fiscal policy actions became a drag on output growth when the recovery was still weak.

We're not planning for the future. If we continue to spend ourselves into oblivion, we are going to destroy this nation.

Congress is not an ATM.

We have to remember we're in a global economy. The purpose of fiscal stimulus is not simply to sustain activity in our national economies, but to help the global economy as well, and that's why it's so critical that measures in those packages avoid anything that smacks of protectionism.

Japan's future prospects depend on ensuring fiscal sustainability over the long term.