Ronald Reagan Quotes

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

If you raise taxes, it won't reduce the deficit. The other team will simply spend the resources.

The appropriation of public money always is perfectly lovely until some one is asked to pay the bill. If we are to have a billion dollars of navy, half a billion of farm relief, etc... the people will have to furnish more revenue by paying more taxes. It is for them, through their Congress, to decide how far they wish to go.

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 have to deal with two issues. Spending and taxes.

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

Governments harangue about deficits to get more revenue so they can spend more.

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

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

There is nothing more important for a government than getting its budget through.

Arizona faces many challenges ahead. None is more important or more pressing than passing a new state budget.

Domestic discretionary spending on education and health care and the environment has been growing at 2 to 3 percent a year. He says we have to rein it in, but he ignores the spending category that is the big spike in the budget.

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

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.

Government is just spending too much money.

Of course we have to address the deficit if we win.

Unlike the federal government, most states don't have the option of running a deficit.

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.

I was the chairman of the House Budget Committee and one of the chief architects the last time we balanced a budget, and it was the first time we had done it since man walked on the moon. We had a $5 trillion surplus and we cut taxes.

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

People question me all the time about my experience. They question my experience in politics, and the first thing I always tell them is yes, I have no experience raising taxes over and over. I have no experience increasing the debt in a state.

The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.

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.

Bush has never sent over a balanced budget.