Carly Fiorina Quotes

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

We have a spending problem, not a taxing problem. The less we spend, the more jobs we have the potential to create.

Taxes are forever; spending cuts are transitory.

The successful conduct of economic policy is possible only if there is - and is seen to be - full agreement between the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

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

We have to deal with two issues. Spending and taxes.

Past experience with fiscal austerity at home and overseas strongly suggests that it is best for the economy's long-run performance to restrain government spending rather than raise taxes.

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

Defense spending as a share of the economy dropped significantly during the early 1990s, and that was one of the things, along with other policy changes, that put us back on the path to a balanced budget.

Cutting budget deficits can never be just an exercise in economics.

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'm very much in favor of tax cuts, but not with borrowed money. And the problem that we've gotten into in recent years is spending programs with borrowed money, tax cuts with borrowed money, and at the end of the day that proves disastrous. And my view is I don't think we can play subtle policy here.

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

In the area of macroeconomic policies, I think we'll see more centralization, like in the budgetary sphere.

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 best deficit reduction program is a growing economy.

Can the amazing national debt be paid by a little trifling sum squeezed from year to year out of America?.... Would it not be much superior wisdom, and sounder policy, for a distressed kingdom to retrench the vast unnecessary expenses continually incurred by its enormous vices?

I believe, as a matter of principle, that the debt is a problem that must be addressed sooner rather than later. I also know that fundamental changes are needed in the way Washington spends and taxes if we truly want a healthy economy. This must include changing our government's long-term fiscal path, which is unsustainable.

Getting the budget balanced, regulatory reform, tax reform - I think these lead to economic growth.

In addition to reining in spending, taxes, tolls and fees, let's rein in how much the state borrows.

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.

Look, I don't dispute that the deficit has increased.

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.

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.