Mario Draghi Quotes

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

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.

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.

Our priority must be to build a path towards balancing the budget, and we cannot tolerate growing deficits.

Fiscal discipline can turn the economy around.

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

You could make a case for job creation or education, police on the street, but none of those things can happen unless we got our financial house in order.

The few emerging economies that have avoided booms and busts have done so by adhering to sound policy frameworks.

Only one thing can save this country, and that's to get a handle on this deficit and debt issue.

I think America is strong enough to fix the problems, grace and honor to D.C. I think energy independence and control spending. We have to go to a balanced budget. Quite frankly, as far as our debt goes, I don't think you can tax your way out of it. I think people are taxed enough.

Any move to reduce government spending is a positive for the economy.

Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury.

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.

But I think the global economy will understand that the United States has the ability to meet its obligations. But it's not going to be able to do it over the long term if we can't control the growth of government.

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

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

As the President reviewed the state of the union and unveiled his second-term agenda, he fell short of adequately explaining how he intends to set America back on the course of fiscal responsibility and secure the fiscal health of the nation.

Reducing debt through budgetary consolidation is essential to restoring Europe's financial health.

Without a doubt, first thing we should do is clean up our fiscal house, and that starts with balancing our budgets and digging out of this red ink. We cannot expect to continue in this fashion and remain the leader of the free world.

The government is determined to continue the process of fiscal consolidation and structural reform in order to secure sound public finances and improve the country's international competitiveness.

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.

Austerity need not be Europe's fate.

In fact, I think - our view of this is that while the agreement, the compromise did not achieve the kind of super-sized deficit reduction that we sought, it did end the uncertainty around the perception, the possibility that the United States might default on its obligations for its first time. That was a good thing.