Pete Sessions Quotes

In the middle of a recession, where we're just climbing out of it, where the economy -unemployment is still at 9.7 percent, the idea of raising taxes and reducing spending is a prescription for disaster.

The cozy world we were told would go on forever, where full employment would be guaranteed by a stroke of the Chancellor’s pen, cutting taxes, deficit spending—that cozy world is gone.

I am not for raising taxes in a recession, especially when it comes to job creators that we need so desperately to start creating jobs again.

So, in Europe, they're cutting people's retirement and health benefits. And that's what we want to avoid from happening. They're raising taxes, entering a recession. That's the kind of economic program that President Obama has put in place.

The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our strength.

Raising taxes in an economic downturn is not a good idea.

We had massive tax cuts in the early phases of the [George W.] Bush years… The decade following was the worst growth rate in over 60 years.

Let's be clear: raising taxes during a very slow recovery is likely to lead to another recession, and it will do absolutely nothing to balance the budget.

Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate unemployment as the far greater evil in terms of human welfare.

I thought the Bush economic policy was a disaster. We lost 500,000 private sector jobs during his tenure.

Doing nothing and shrinking spending may save us public money in the short term but could cost us a great deal more over time as the recession takes hold for much longer.

The economy is terrible it's been terrible for years now, and the reason it's bad is not because of a debt-ceiling vote. The reason it's bad is because we have people who believe that by making government bigger by keeping people on unemployment checks and on welfare we're going to dig us out of this mess.

The tax relief package enacted in 2001 was central to pulling the economy out of the post 9-11 recession. It's the reason we've got low unemployment and have created more than two million jobs in the last year.

I think the ethos for Gov. Romney is to use a whole variety of policies, of which tax policy is one, to try to raise the rate of growth. We've had a recovery from the financial crisis that would be well below what one might normally expect for a recovery from such a deep recession. And to counteract that we need better tax policy.

In the middle of a recession no tax increase is justified because it kills jobs, and any tax increase is a job-killing measure and should be defeated.

We have not recovered all that we lost in the Bush recession. That's why we need to continue to move forward.

The worst thing that we could do is raises taxes. It would only hurt the economy.

Americans don't think we should be raising taxes on anybody, especially in the middle of a recession.

The president's grand experiment in trickle-down government has held back rather than sped economic recovery. He seems to sincerely believe we can build a middle class out of government jobs paid for with borrowed dollars.

Rising unemployment and the recession have been the price that we have had to pay to get inflation down. That price is well worth paying.

I don't want to be partisan here. But please, tell me how you get out of a business recession by raising business taxes and regulations?

During an economic crisis, what matters is that the government keeps its foot on the accelerator.

Obama has so mismanaged the economy.

To create employment, we need to stimulate the economy, and to stimulate the economy, we need to cut spending and reduce the deficit.

We simply can't spend our way out of a recession.