Smriti Irani Quotes

I believe that if we are able to, obviously we need to ensure that we have a robust budget that's balanced, but there's no way I would ever accept austerity.

More generally, I strongly believe in the importance of fiscal responsibility.

What's really important to me is that we have fiscally responsible balanced budgets.

We'll set our approach to borrowing, to spending, to taxation, in a sensible way on a sensible timescale.

What I wanted to do was see if we couldn't balance the budget.

I look at this in a very simple way: I want to bring the debt down.

Leaders should not just talk about - but walk the walk of - fiscal conservatism.

As Indiana's governor, I balanced eight budgets, never raised taxes, and left the largest surplus in state history. It wasn't always easy. Cuts had to be made and some initiatives deferred. Occasionally I had to say 'no.'

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.

Disciplined governments do not engage in the economic equivalent of binge eating followed by crash dieting.

It's insane to try to balance the budget.

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

If you don't get spending under control, eventually you're going to have a big tax increase.

The only way to meet the situation [the financial crisis] is spend less money and to run the City of New York within the limits of our resources. Unless you do this, gentlemen, you will have a difficult problem confronting you by the end of this year and the taxpayers of 1922 and the years thereafter will have to pay the price of our present lack of prudence or our unwillingness to economize at the proper time.

Let us act with our eyes open. We are going to have a deficit next fiscal year and the year after that.

Washington has to stop spending money we don’t have for projects we don’t want.

The function of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, as I understand it, is to resist all demands for expenditure made by his colleagues and, when he can no longer resist, to limit the concession to the barest point of acceptance.

The issue is not growth verses fiscal responsibility. We need both!

I was fortunate, I guess, to be part of some good fiscal discipline in the Bush administration. The budget I put forward was a balanced budget.

I'm for a balanced budget now.

The people of Illinois sent me to Springfield to end the era of unbalanced budgets and runaway debt.

I've been a conservative when it comes to budgeting issues and streamlining government.

In the private sector we budget for rainy days or offset unexpected expenditures with spending cuts and the same principles should apply to Congress.

There needs to be fiscal common sense.

A two-year budget is not an ideology.