George W. Bush Quotes

Those who say we can continue to indefinitely borrow from our children and grandchildren and generations to come in fact are eroding our ability to do what we ought to do in education, in health care and in other things.

The era of deficit denial is over

We must get rid of deficit spending which finances the political schemes of today by mortgaging the future of tomorrow.

So when I look at spending more dollars, I look at the fact, do I really want my kids and your kids and everybody else's kids in this country to have to pay that bill?

The reason Congress hasn't balanced the budget is that the sky hasn't fallen lately.

Let us act with our eyes open. We are going to have a deficit next fiscal year and the year after that.

We all have to sacrifice to reduce the debt, but we can’t sacrifice our future.

Last year 100,000 people gathered on The Mall to Protest the deficit. We Republicans, over and over, castigated President Obama for creating a Trillion dollar deficit. I was against big deficits then, and I am agaist them now. Just because it is now Republicans doing all the spending, I am still opposed.... Those Republcians who voted for a tax cut and a spending increase are hypocrites.

Now we are raising the debt limit 3 times, up to $8 trillion, so that our children and our grandchildren will have to pay for the cost of our expenditures.

Deficits mean future tax increases, pure and simple. Deficit spending should be viewed as a tax on future generations, and politicians who create deficits should be exposed as tax hikers.

The best thing to hold down spending is to have a Democratic President and a Republican Congress.

I personally do not worship at the alter of a balanced budget.

I want the government to pinch pennies for a change instead of American families.

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

The only way to meet the situation [the financial crisis] is spend less money and to run the City of New York within the limits of our resources. Unless you do this, gentlemen, you will have a difficult problem confronting you by the end of this year and the taxpayers of 1922 and the years thereafter will have to pay the price of our present lack of prudence or our unwillingness to economize at the proper time.

Let’s make this the year where we are either going to get rid of the deficit or get rid of the idea that we are going to get rid of the deficit..

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

According to the White House, the president's proposed 2016-2017 spending would add - get this - $62 billion to the deficit.

Congress must do what we said we would and find ways to pay for bills we propose so we don't leave future generations mired in debt.

I have three adult children, and I have four grandchildren. I want to stop the deficits. I want to make sure that we're not passing on to my children and my grandchildren deficits and that we cannot repay and that they will have to repay and maybe they won't be able to repay them.

I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself.

Every generation has an obligation to leave its children in a better position than it inherited. Our representatives in Washington are breaking faith with that covenant. America must reduce its federal spending and accumulation of debt for the sake of generations to come.

A budget matters to people who worry about protecting and saving critical programs like Medicare and Social Security. A budget matters to younger workers who fear that more and more money will be taken from their paychecks to fund another generation's spending spree.

If we don't change the way Washington operates we're going to bankrupt our children and grandchildren.

America has to ask itself not what it wants, but what it can afford... The New Deal, in my mind, has become a raw deal for my children.