Fiscal Quotes

I am conservative with a small 'c.' It's possible to be conservative in fiscal policy, and tolerant on moral issues or questions of freedom of expression.

I'm not really conservative. I'm conservative on certain things. I believe in less government. I believe in fiscal responsibility and all those things that maybe Republicans used to believe in but don't any more.

Especially today, given the tight fiscal situation that many States and localities face, the use of transportation facilities that pay for themselves without additional Federal funding is essential.

Strong advocacy for education, health care and worker safety will be indispensable if they are to get their fair share of President Bush's austere budget for the next fiscal year.

I would like to see this group in this Congress be starting the process to get ourselves on long term fiscal strong footing.

I am a Republican. I'm loyal to the party of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. And I believe that my party, in some ways, has strayed from those principles, particularly on the issue of fiscal discipline.

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

The lack of fiscal responsibility is one of the main reasons I finally left my old Party.

Gradual fiscal consolidation may also be stimulative in the short run.

President Obama has ignored or dismissed proposals that would address our anti-competitive tax code and unsustainable trajectory of federal debt - including his own bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform - and submitted no plan for entitlement reform.

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.

Fiscal responsibility and government reform are going to be good themes for governing, well at any time, but particularly coming out of a recovery.

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.

The great thing about fiscal policy is that it has a direct impact and doesn't require you to bind the hands of future policymakers.

As a matter of fact, if you do not take into account, as Congressman Ross just stated, the Social Security surplus, our fiscal deficit, ladies and gentlemen, is over $700 billion today.

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

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.

I will work to restore fiscal responsibility to our country's budget and to provide for a more robust economy.

Truly, the challenges we face are not Democratic challenges or Republican challenges. In fact, they are not political challenges at all; they are fiscal challenges, and educational challenges, and the challenges of figuring out how to take care of each other.

The President is not squaring with the American people as to the seriousness of our nation's fiscal condition. It is time for people to stand up and tell the truth.

I'll never run for office. But I intend, either on the fiscal commission or on issues like immigration, to hopefully have my voice be heard.

In the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, our nation has been put under considerable fiscal pressure.

The country is facing a fiscal crisis, and the United States Senate is at the center of the debate about how to bring federal spending under control.

This program that the Republican majority has taken us toward as a country is leading us to fiscal bankruptcy.

The more we can do to address fiscal austerity, the better our markets will do, and there is a real political shift to doing that.

Europe is trying to get its fiscal house in order.

My friend Paul Ryan talks about fiscal responsibility, but voted to put two wars on a credit card.

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

What we heard today was not fiscal leadership from our Commander-in-Chief, what we heard today was a political broadside from our Campaigner-in-Chief.

First, the year 2004, the year past, the Comptroller General of the United States, David A. Walker, said that arguably it was the worst year in American fiscal history, clearly setting our Nation on an unsustainable path.