Nina Turner Quotes

He [President Ronald Reagan] has tried to balance the budget on the backs of state and local government.

The Republican agenda is a radical vision in which Medicaid is slashed to the bone - in which we start to balance the budget on the backs of, literally, our most vulnerable citizens.

The total impact of the Tory/Liberal tax, welfare and public spending changes has hit the poorest 10% in society disproportionately hard - and women have been affected even more badly than men.

It's not easy cutting welfare bills. It's not easy cutting the deficit.

A public debt is a public curse and in a representative government greater than any other.

We want public services but we do not want to pay for them

In too many ways, Ohio is being run for the benefit of those who have already made it, and too many of our friends and neighbors are being left behind. Nowhere is this more evident than in the cuts to police officers, firefighters, nurses, teachers, and to our local schools, while property and sales taxes are going up.

The way to reduce the deficit is to create jobs and work opportunities so that people will have money with which to pay taxes.

We need to find a way of having a conversation across the parties on how you fund local government.

If the economy is strained, then Social Security, like the rest of the government, will be, too.

Governors of both political parties face a stark choice between unpopular tax increases and drastic cuts in Medicaid, education, public safety and other essential services.

In fact, it works the other way: A government as big and bossy as this one is maintained on the backs of the middle class and those who hope to join it.

Funding for sports (and the arts) are often the first things facing the chop in difficult times.

In the current law we're seeing Social Security dwindle. And so what we're saying is if we're going to reduce taxes we just want to make sure that there are things within the law that pay for it.

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

Just as we should never balance the budget on the backs of the poor, so it is an economic delusion to think you can balance it only on the wallets of the rich.

Let's push the Pentagon off the fiscal cliff.

In order to reduce the deficit, there has to be revenue in addition to cuts.

If you're opposed to the budget I submitted to the General Assembly, you're for a tax increase.

The truth is that as we move forward, if one side says we can't raise any taxes on anybody or any interest, and the other side says we can't cut anything, we're obviously not going to make progress on this. And our interest is in making progress on this.

I will not accept a new wave of fiscal retrenchment, of belt-tightening, without asking people at the top to make their contribution, to make an additional contribution. I don't think you can ask people on middle and low incomes, who, after all, are the vast majority of the British population, to bear the brunt of this adjustment.

Cutting spending is harder than raising taxes. Every dollar of federal spending has a constituency.

Government can’t deliver a free lunch to the country as a whole. It can, however, determine who pays for lunch.

The appropriation of public money always is perfectly lovely until someone is asked to pay the bill.

Governments have nothing. They can't create anything, they never have. All they can do is steal from one group and give it to another