Harry Browne Quotes

Only in Washington do you hear a budget increase described as a cut.

I think it's the broadest source of dissatisfaction amongst Republicans, out-of-control spending.

Conservative think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and Cato Institute have criticized Bush for his big increases in spending, which far exceed those of the Clinton era.

You know, when Republicans were in charge, we doubled the debt. But, now, our concern is the Democrats are in charge and they're tripling the debt. So, really, our concern is that we want smaller government.

I don't have many litmus tests, but this is one: Any candidate who doesn't understand that we need to balance the budget should not be president of the United States.

As a fiscal conservative, I think that our government should pay for itself.

I think Governor Romney has a two-part budget plan that very much levels with voters far more so than any candidate in my lifetime.

Normally, when politicians talk about 'cutting the budget,' they really mean reducing the amount of increase. Actual spending goes up while the politicians claim to have 'cut the budget.'

George W. Bush is a big spender…. When Congress sends up a bill with big. fat, crackling pork, he says, “Where’s the barbecue sauce?”

The Conservative Party is a tax cutting party or it is nothing.

If you refuse to acknowledge that there is any waste that can be culled from the military budget, you are a big-government conservative, and you cannot lay claim to balancing the budget.

I'm old enough to remember when Republicans loved the CBO because it tells the conservatives the thing that matters most to them which is how much is it going to cost taxpayers.

Mark Meadows will fight for what's right, because he understands that higher taxes and more regulations are not the way to solve our country's problems.

I'm not living off of any taxpayer money. If I am - if it's food stamps, it's a temporary resource.

I'm not a professional politician. I'm a professional problem solver, and I believe we should cut the salaries of senators and congressmen 10 percent until they balance the budget. I call that conservative common sense.

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

The one word that no politician will ever speak, is 'enough.' Enough.

We should reduce total government spending as a percentage of the economy. The left wants to focus on the deficit so they can take us away from the focus on spending as a percentage of the economy.

I don't think you expand entitlements when so many people are dependent on government and when the money the federal government is offering is going to be taken away from you after just a couple of years.

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

I believe the only measure of government response shouldn't be how much we spend on a situation, but rather how well we spend.

The automatic stabilizer is unemployment insurance, food stamps, additional coverage of Medicaid.

Only in Washington does a decrease in the proposed increase equal a spending cut.

Reagan proved deficits don't matter.

Leaders should not just talk about - but walk the walk of - fiscal conservatism.