Meredith Whitney Quotes

Not in the constitution, but I would propose a law to the French parliament that provides for reducing the budget deficit year by year, until we have reached a balanced budget by 2017.

If we don't get a grip on government spending, there will be no growth.

It's time for the sensible center to rise up and push for a rational approach to our fiscal challenges.

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

Obviously, there has to be a profound change in direction. Otherwise, interest on the national debt will start eating up virtually every penny that we have.

I, for one, believe that revenue has to increase. I think every American would pay more if they thought spending was going to be cut and the budget brought to balance.

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

We agree with Simpson and Bowles and others who have looked at this. What's necessary is to stabilize the debt and then work from there. You can't balance the budget in the short term because to do that would be to ratchet down the economy.

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.

The political gridlock in Washington leads us to conclude that policymakers don't have the ability to put the public finances of the U.S. on a sustainable footing.

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.

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

The Tea Party knows that continuing to delay charting a course to spending reform hurts everybody.

Fiscal discipline is a priority in Romania, and we have already proven we are committed and able to make real progress in this area.

We are worried about the size of the deficit, which is why the president is pleased that the House and Senate have followed his lead in cutting the deficit in half over the next five years.

There's a stability and growth pact which was agreed for the eleven countries which tries to limit the size of budget deficits among the eleven countries.

Memo to Congress: America's problem is not that government is too small. It's the spending, stupid!

Fiscal policy is not just, or even not even principally, the purview of the president.

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.

What you really want to do is sit down and find a place that you can control government spending and raise more revenue.

Look, I am not worried about Washington cutting too much spending too fast. I mean, the kinds of spending cuts we're talking about just right now are $100 billion out of a $3.7 trillion budget.

We have to reduce the burden placed on our economy by years of deficits and debt.

We can't continue to kick the can when it comes to the fiscal state of this country.

The right way to deal with a budget problem that was years in the making is by formulating a credible plan to reduce the deficit over time and as the economy is able to withstand the necessary fiscal belt-tightening. That is what President Obama is doing.

If you ask people do you think that government should spend less money than what it takes in, most people agree with that.