Todd Young Quotes

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

Look, I am not worried about Washington cutting too much spending too fast. I mean, the kinds of spending cuts we're talking about just right now are $100 billion out of a $3.7 trillion budget.

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.

But the debt limit obviously is something that needs to and will be passed. That is not inconsistent with a process and a belief that we have to get significant deficit reduction.

We give lip service to the importance of deficit reduction, but Americans oppose every single thing that you might do to reduce the deficit.

I would submit a balanced budget if elected president, and it would be painful.

'Austerity' is a real weasel word because it's an attempt to make something value-based and abstract out of something which, in reality, consists simply of spending cuts.

Deficits must be cut, yes, but the rush to austerity risks undermining the fragile global recovery.

If it took multiple debt ceiling hikes, I'd rather achieve the savings.

I'd be a lot more excited about eliminating earmarks if we reduced all of the spending by whatever the earmarks used to be, but nobody's, apparently, going to talk about doing that.

I came to Congress to help reduce spending.

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

If we didn't propose these reforms, we would not have proposed a budget that got the debt under control.

We're going to have to raise revenues in some form or fashion, and we're going to have to cut spending, including entitlements of all kind, including the military. We all know this. Lets get on with it.

We're committed to working with Congress to doing what the president said he was always going to do, which is cut the deficit in half over the - over his first term.

We cannot cut our way to prosperity.

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

We need to stop this overspending. We need to start turning this battleship in the right direction. And we all have to share in the sacrifice.

My budget is similar to the Penny Plan, which cuts 1 percent a year for five or six years and balances the budget.

There are only two honest ways to reduce our debt: cut spending or raise revenues.

Only one thing can save this country, and that's to get a handle on this deficit and debt issue.

Europe's budget plans are better designed: countries from France to Greece are raising retirement ages; others, from Britain to Germany, have created new organisations and rules to encourage fiscal probity. But Europe risks overkill.

A lawmaker cannot be pro-sequester while also purporting to be pro-national security or supportive of a strong economy.

When I was speaker in North Carolina, the state was gripped with a deficit, and we made a fundamental policy decision to adopt austerity budgets for four years.

In difficult economic times, I'm firmly opposed to austerity.