Haley Barbour Quotes

Sequestration was not designed to be anyone's ideal method for getting our hands around government spending, and it certainly isn't mine.

To cut the federal budget without cutting entitlements is like giving up chocolate-chip cookies and then deciding it's OK to eat the ones that don't have any nuts.

You eventually have to figure out how to balance the books. So that's the reason I gave up my day job to come do this was to go fight to create the space where spending matches America's capacity to tax, and that means economic growth and a smaller, humbler federal government.

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

As governor, I cut $5 billion in spending.

I've been a conservative when it comes to budgeting issues and streamlining government.

You know, even people who talk about cutting spending and they go 'That's not the spending that I was actually talking about that you're supposed to be cutting.' Well, we have to be looking across the board.

Higher taxes is the road to ruin. We must and we will shrink our government, and that means making some tough choices, tightening our belts.

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

Bush has never sent over a balanced budget.

We must take away the government's credit card. With limits on both tax revenue and borrowing, the Federal government would finally be forced to get serious about spending cuts.

It is being alleged that the Federal Government is 'cutting' spending. In fact, we are not 'cutting' anything. Defense spending under this budget would rise by 4.3 percent over last year. Other discretionary spending would also rise.

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.

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

The most remarkable thing about Calvin Coolidge is that he served for 67 months, and when he left office, the budget was lower than he came in. In real terms - in nominal terms with vanilla on top - he cut the budget year over year.

Instead of raising taxes as some would insist, we need to reduce waste and inefficiency in government.

The President has a short time to let people know that he is serious about getting spending under control.

If the rest of Washington ran as efficiently as this football team there wouldn't be any deficit.

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

I think Americans all across this country want more of those types of delaying tactics to slow down this runaway train of massive Federal spending.

Certainly, cutting spending is one of the things that can transcend to the federal government. I mean, I think the federal government has grown by leaps and bounds, and they need to look where do they need to cut.

When I get to Washington, I'll know how to cut pork. Washington is full of big spenders. Let's make them squeal.

I don't think I can sell to our voters in our district that there's nothing to cut in the federal budget. Nobody, I think, sees that or would agree with that.

We need more leaders in Washington who will do more with less - and that's how we engineer real change.

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.