Tucker Carlson Quotes

Even with not having a balanced budget at this time, I support tax cuts. That will help limit spending.

I am a deficit hawk.

The best thing to hold down spending is to have a Democratic President and a Republican Congress.

There is no ground on which House Republican leaders should compromise until Democrats are finally ready to give up their spending addiction.

I think it's the broadest source of dissatisfaction amongst Republicans, out-of-control spending.

We should reduce total government spending as a percentage of the economy. The left wants to focus on the deficit so they can take us away from the focus on spending as a percentage of the economy.

I can tell you if you look at the polls, Democrats, Republicans, Independents, they do not think we should increase the debt limit.

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

You know, when Republicans were in charge, we doubled the debt. But, now, our concern is the Democrats are in charge and they're tripling the debt. So, really, our concern is that we want smaller government.

Reagan proved deficits don't matter.

In a clean break from the Obama years, and frankly from the years before this president, we will keep federal spending at 20 percent of GDP, or less. That is enough. The choice is whether to put hard limits on economic growth, or hard limits on the size of government, and we choose to limit government.

We've not had one Republican president in 34 years balance the budget. You can't trust right-wing Republicans with your money. You ought to hire somebody who has balanced a budget. I'm much more conservative with money than George Bush is.

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

States, virtually all of them, have a constitutional requirement to operate on a balanced budget.

When Mr. Obama entered office, he said all the right things about getting Washington spending under control. He even promised to cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term. Obviously, that didn't happen.

There is no real justification for a requirement that a budget of any sort should be balanced, except as a rallying point for those who seek to hamstring government.

The deficit only became a big problem in the Reagan-Bush years. For 12 years, Republican presidents talked about balancing the budget, but failed to propose one.

We had a $10 billion budget deficit when we got here in January of 2003. We cut that budget deficit; we did not raise taxes; we came back in '05, and we had an $8 billion surplus. That's how fast it can happen.

A long term tax cut is not a tax cut at all unless it is accompanied by a spending cut.

I personally do not worship at the alter of a balanced budget.

Like Ike [President Eisenhower] did. Talk economy and then spend away.

Those who make the most and loudest speeches about deficit reduction are least likely to vote against spending.

I do think a focus on fiscal restraint is a central element of the Tea Party, and thank goodness for it!

With its record spending and deficits, the Obama administration has shown little interest in taking fiscal responsibility. That is a mistake.

Now fiscal responsibility is generally a good thing, and so a centrism mindlessly focused on tweaking legislation away from deficit spending has its uses.