Lois Frankel Quotes

The outlook for the Federal budget is bleak.

Deficit, deficit, deficit. The political and media elites are obsessed with the D-word.

Now, 'the fiscal cliff' is a name that the media came up with, but some of us have been saying for years, 'You have got to stop the out of control federal spending, or you will end up at this point.' We're there.

Nobody wants to pay higher taxes. But do you want your kids to get a good education? You have to pay for that. Do you want Medicare for senior citizens? I do. We have to pay for it.

Governors of both political parties face a stark choice between unpopular tax increases and drastic cuts in Medicaid, education, public safety and other essential services.

No one was elected to Congress because he or she promised to cut Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid.

This debt crisis coming to our country. The wall and tidal wave of debt that is befalling our nation. Medicare and Social Security go bankrupt within ten years, we have a debt that is looming so high that in the last year of President Obama's budget just the interest payments on our debt is $916 billion dollars.

We have major fiscal problems on our hand.

It's not easy cutting welfare bills. It's not easy cutting the deficit.

We need a proper balance between government spending on nursing homes and nursery schools - on the last six months of life and the first six months of life.

When you talk about entitlement programs, it's not just about - it's not about cutting those programs. It is about saving those programs. Those programs are on a path of fiscal unsustainability.

For the fifth year in a row, the Bush budget cuts city core services to pay for wealthy tax breaks. And once again, the mayor's requests were not funded.

We should stop having a conversation about cutting Social Security a little bit or a lot.

When it comes to serious cuts to major programs like Medicaid, the American people are not calling for leadership but magic. They want cuts with no pain.

The closest thing you ever get to a cut is a decrease in the rate of increase of government spending.

Our national finances are in a ruinous state.

We have taxes so we can educate our kids, take care of our elderly.

Your Minister of Finance must confess to Your Majesty that he is frozen with terror on examining the budget for the War, and must also that he knows of no means by which such expenses can possibly be met….

Democrats need to stand strong against any efforts to cut benefits to Social Security and Medicare.

I cannot stand it when the French are asked in all circumstances to make sacrifices before the state cuts back on its own wasteful expenditures.

The public understands that the government is broke, but many still don't want to cut programs they enjoy or depend on.

We must unequivocally reject any cuts to Social Security or Medicare benefits.

This deficit that we have threatens our very way of life, and everything needs to be on the table.

We have to reverse spending trends that are not job-creating.

Whenever people in Washington complain about spending cuts, they mean spending cuts that would affect defense contractors. They want to massively increase spending cuts everywhere else in the budget.