Fiscal Quotes

“I've always been a fiscal conservative. I've been a moderate.”

“We have a problem. We have a massive, massive problem.”

“I've been a deficit hawk from day one.”

“This is a good time to ask questions about our fiscal future. We have to have a national conversation about how we are going to fix this.”

“The national debt is a threat to our children's future.”

“I'm a Democrat for fiscal discipline.”

“We cannot continue to mortgage our children's future with this unsustainable debt.”

“My number one goal is to hold on to the Power of the Purse.”

“The first rule of holes is when you're in one, stop digging.”

“We have to be realistic about our fiscal challenges, and we have to be responsible in how we meet them.”

“At the end of the day, the numbers that we're hearing are not going to be the numbers that we see.”

“I am a fiscal conservative who believes we must live within our means.”

“You have to have a budget. You can't just spend and spend and spend.”

“We must guard against the belief that we can solve our problems with a checkbook.”

“Fiscal responsibility is not just an economic issue; it's a moral issue.”

“If you are for a long-term real growth, you have to have a balanced budget.”

“Entitlement reform is the biggest single fiscal issue that this country's ever faced.”

“The failure to deal with the long-term fiscal imbalance is the single most important threat to our economic future.”

“I think we're going to have to be a lot more disciplined about what we do with our money.”

“We have a spending problem, not a revenue problem.”