Boris Johnson Quotes

The reason I know it [our economy] is strong is that it has survived Congress. If the economy can survive Congress, I am confident that it will thrive eventually.

We can't continue to kick the can when it comes to the fiscal state of this country.

I think you're going to see a number of Democrats that do want to see us grapple with spending.

If we increase spending, we have got to raise taxes or any combination.

He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet.

it would be nice to have low taxes, but we have to pay our bills in this country.

More people working and paying taxes reduces government expenditures and helps us move a little closer to balance.

It's time to acknowledge that more government and higher taxes is not the answer to our problem.

What our Republican friends are doing, if we look at what they do and not what they say, they have decided that the most important thing in this country is to increase payments for interest on the national debt.

We have to deal with two issues. Spending and taxes.

The great thing about fiscal policy is that it has a direct impact and doesn't require you to bind the hands of future policymakers.

People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income.

Obama's plan for higher taxes and more spending is a blueprint for perpetual poverty. The last thing America needs is more of the Democrats' class warfare that has left our economy a barren landscape.

Fiscal policy is not just, or even not even principally, the purview of the president.

We're all concerned about the budget. We're all concerned about what's happening financially in our country. There's no question about it. Congress is working day and night. In fact, every time I go home the lights are on at the top of the Capitol.

What we heard today was not fiscal leadership from our Commander-in-Chief, what we heard today was a political broadside from our Campaigner-in-Chief.

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

Obama's claim is that he wants to give. The GOP is saying it wants to take.

Obviously, there has to be a profound change in direction. Otherwise, interest on the national debt will start eating up virtually every penny that we have.

Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support.

And it's important to remember we are all responsible - or certainly the elected members in Washington of both parties are responsible for making decisions and choices to ensure that the economy grows and jobs are created.

Even with not having a balanced budget at this time, I support tax cuts. That will help limit spending.

Instead of focusing on growing jobs and reigniting our economy, President Obama focused on growing government and tried to remake the United States into the image of the debt-laden countries of Europe. His approach has been more spending, more regulation, and higher taxes.

The economy grows when families can spend money on personal priorities rather than priorities imposed by the federal government.

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