Jose Mujica Quotes

I am a deficit hawk.

You will see the President being very, very tough on spending.

Those who make the most and loudest speeches about deficit reduction are least likely to vote against spending.

We are the ones that are trying to get Washington spending under control so it can live within its means.

In difficult economic times, I'm firmly opposed to austerity.

I am a fiscal conservative.

We Hoosiers hold to some quaint notions. Some might say we 'cling' to them, though not out of fear or ignorance. We believe in paying our bills. We have kept our state in the black throughout the recent unpleasantness, while cutting rather than raising taxes, by practicing an old tribal ritual - we spend less money than we take in.

Raising the debt limit on some levels is a ministerial act. It doesn't involve any new spending.

The American people know that we cannot spend our way to prosperity.

Today is the day for the complaining to end and for statesmanship to begin. Today I am taking action to cut state spending and balance the budget this year.

As American families and businesses have been forced to tighten their belts, Washington has refused to do the same.

In a clean break from the Obama years, and frankly from the years before this president, we will keep federal spending at 20 percent of GDP, or less. That is enough. The choice is whether to put hard limits on economic growth, or hard limits on the size of government, and we choose to limit government.

Hey, well, I've been a pretty conservative member of congress.

Our state has a balanced budget. We have to live within our means in the state of Wyoming. I was in the state senate. This country needs a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution. We need to live within our means.

I have voted to make tough decisions in budgetary times, I've served on two recessionary budgets, my opponent has never served on any a budget committee where there was less money to spend than the year before.

I've made more cuts than any governor has ever made.

There is no real justification for a requirement that a budget of any sort should be balanced, except as a rallying point for those who seek to hamstring government.

The message from the United States and Europe is that governments must live within their means.

The Republican Party once could lay claim to the mantle of being the fiscally responsible, or 'Daddy,' Party.

A Conservative government is necessary. There is no credible alternative.

I want the government to pinch pennies for a change instead of American families.

At a time of tight budgets, unless something is really broken and not working, they [his congressional colleagues] just don't get excited about it.

Like Ike [President Eisenhower] did. Talk economy and then spend away.

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

You cannot borrow and spend your way into prosperity. It does not work.