George F. Will Quotes

Instead of focusing on growing jobs and reigniting our economy, President Obama focused on growing government and tried to remake the United States into the image of the debt-laden countries of Europe. His approach has been more spending, more regulation, and higher taxes.

The insane pursuit of the holy grail of a balanced budget in the end is going to drive the economy into a depression.

Austerity need not be Europe's fate.

When I took over, the economy had almost collapsed. I told Malawians we needed to pass through difficult times. Two days ago I even cut my own salary by 30% to show we are making sacrifices.

If the program goes off track again due to recession, this should not become a pretext for the imposition of more austerity measures.

As austerity measures were foisted upon Greece, Ireland, Portugal, and other highly indebted countries, growth was rendered even more elusive, aggravating unemployment

While President Obama shirks his responsibility to advance solutions to our fiscal challenges, he can no longer hide from the merciless math of the balance sheet. Conservatives have made certain of that.

Deficits must be cut, yes, but the rush to austerity risks undermining the fragile global recovery.

You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt.

Again, the American people expect us to do what they are doing. It's tightening the belt, it's learning how to do more with less. That's a reality today, and we've got to do that in order to get the private sector growing.

I'd be happy to have regular face-to-face meetings at Downing Street with David Cameron to argue the case for alternative economic policies.

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.

Austerity is not part of the European treaties; democracy and the principle of popular sovereignty are.

The most important point is, in a time of crisis, there is no way out but for the government to be bold and aggressive.

In fighting the debt crisis, E.U. countries have enhanced co-operation and carried out reform with tremendous courage. This is laudable.

My opponent Senator Menendez and his colleagues are pursuing what I consider a Jon Corzine economic policy. Higher taxes, more spending, more debt.

As families and small businesses alike are tightening their belts to account for the worsening economy, they have every right to ask: 'Why isn't my government doing the same?'

In a normal time, I don't think economic policy makes a large difference one way or another. But in times of crisis it makes all the difference in the world.

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.

Political leaders cannot survive as advocates of near-permanent austerity on the basis of directives imposed from abroad.

During an economic crisis, what matters is that the government keeps its foot on the accelerator.

Honest people can disagree on policy. But where there can be no honest disagreement is the need to change our nation's debt course.

America needs a new approach to boost the economy - one that does not doom future generations to being saddled with paying off today's federal deficits.

I would submit a balanced budget if elected president, and it would be painful.

You balance the budget by restraining the growth of government and encouraging the growth of the private sector.