Rob Portman Quotes

You know, to preserve our job-friendly climate the Texas legislature didn't raise taxes this last legislative session while balancing their budget and maintaining their reserves - and might I add that our budget leaves $6 billion dollars in a rainy day fund?

We're focused on doing the things that make the economy perform well, and as you do that, reduce deficits, for one, very important; secondly, keep growth rates high, very important.

Tonight I come before you to announce that the Federal Deficit will be simply zero.

I believe that if we are able to, obviously we need to ensure that we have a robust budget that's balanced, but there's no way I would ever accept austerity.

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

Our priority must be to build a path towards balancing the budget, and we cannot tolerate growing deficits.

I mean, the fact of the matter is, Ohio 's coming back because we set a clear path, we cut taxes, we balanced our budget, we got credit upgrades when the whole rest of the world, including America, was being downgraded.

Without deficit reduction, we cannot have sustained economic growth.

I'm for a balanced budget now.

I take very seriously our responsibility to keep a strong economy.

The country needs fiscal discipline to build a strong economy and for social justice.

We have to start grounding our policies in facts and recognize that a strong economy is critical for funding progressive priorities.

A Syriza government will respect Greece's obligation as a eurozone member to maintain a balanced budget and will commit to quantitative targets.

It's all right to agree or disagree on the balanced budget amendment. It's all right to talk about how we're going to appropriate.

This Budget reflects a choice - not an easy choice, but the right choice. And when you think about it, the only choice. The choice to take the responsible, prudent path to fiscal stability, economic growth and opportunity.

As the President reviewed the state of the union and unveiled his second-term agenda, he fell short of adequately explaining how he intends to set America back on the course of fiscal responsibility and secure the fiscal health of the nation.

Defense spending as a share of the economy dropped significantly during the early 1990s, and that was one of the things, along with other policy changes, that put us back on the path to a balanced budget.

Sound public finances are the essential foundation on which to construct a better-balanced economy from the wreckage of Labour's boom and bust. But it is economic growth that will create the jobs and the prosperity for the future and enable us to pay down Labour's debt.

Reagan proved deficits don't matter.

When Bill Clinton was in town, he sent over a balanced budget.

President Obama likes to talk about winning the future. But someone needs to tell him: You can't win the prosperity of tomorrow if you're mortgaging it to pay for the big government programs of today.

States, virtually all of them, have a constitutional requirement to operate on a balanced budget.

I am a deficit hawk.

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

As a fiscal conservative, I believe one of the most important roles the federal government can play in assuring that our economy remains strong is to keep our fiscal house in order.