Everett Dirksen Quotes

We need real leadership, Democrat, Republican and independent to stand up and say, we have to live within our means.

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

The function of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, as I understand it, is to resist all demands for expenditure made by his colleagues and, when he can no longer resist, to limit the concession to the barest point of acceptance.

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.

I look at this in a very simple way: I want to bring the debt down.

I came to Congress to help reduce spending.

The only way you can raise the debt ceiling is to change the trajectory of spending - that's my personal preference. But I want the Ways and Means Committee to offer up a solution.

I was able to promote a strong defense budget when it could have been cut a lot more severely.

Disciplined governments do not engage in the economic equivalent of binge eating followed by crash dieting.

If you don't get spending under control, eventually you're going to have a big tax increase.

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

I will veto again and again until spending is brought under control.

Congress is not an ATM

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

I'm for a balanced budget now.

Congress must demonstrate fiscal responsibility.

I am prepared to discuss the things that I believe we need to do not just to raise the debt limit. Raising the debt limit is the easiest thing. That's one vote away. The hard thing is to show the world we are serious about putting our spending in order so we can show people we'll able to pay our bills down the road.

Increased spending, all these favors that we got to do for people - it's got to stop.

Ultimately, we can't just keep doubling our national debt every eight years. We have got to get that under control and not spend more than we bring in.

Not in the constitution, but I would propose a law to the French parliament that provides for reducing the budget deficit year by year, until we have reached a balanced budget by 2017.

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.

Fiscal discipline is a priority in Romania, and we have already proven we are committed and able to make real progress in this area.

Of course we have to address the deficit if we win.

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

The American people are tired of the out-of-control spending, and they want Washington to get their act in order and stop spending money we don't have.