John Redwood Quotes

Voters want prosperity, not austerity.

I think it's essential that we do more than talk about austerity measures and cutting.

The polls are with us on this. They say the American people, more than anything, want to see spending cuts rather than tax increases.

Tory plans to cut 'further and faster' would wreck recovery and roll back Labour's many successes.

The U.K. and almost all of Europe have erred in terms of believing that austerity, fiscal austerity in the short term, is the way to produce real growth. It is not. You've got to spend money.

In the past, proactive fiscal polices almost always meant just more investment and an increase in the fiscal deficit.

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

We cannot cut our way to prosperity.

A long term tax cut is not a tax cut at all unless it is accompanied by a spending cut.

Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea.

If, before 2020, there is a choice between further spending cuts, more borrowing and tax rises, the priority must be to avoid tax increases. They would disrupt consumption, employment and investment.

The way to reduce the debt is by economic growth.

We are not jumping on the austerity bandwagon. A healthy economy is by far the most important thing for Social Democrats.

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.

The party in power almost always unapologetically engages in deficit spending, while the other party argues passionately against the evils of debt and deficits.

We are worried about the size of the deficit, which is why the president is pleased that the House and Senate have followed his lead in cutting the deficit in half over the next five years.

Higher taxes is the road to ruin. We must and we will shrink our government, and that means making some tough choices, tightening our belts.

Past experience with fiscal austerity at home and overseas strongly suggests that it is best for the economy's long-run performance to restrain government spending rather than raise taxes.

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

The American people elected us here to cut spending so we can create an environment for jobs in America. The House has acted. We have demonstrated that we want to see spending, discretionary spending, brought down to levels of 2008. We've seen no counteraction. We have seen no position that has been expressed by the other side at all.

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

Without growth we can't pay down our debt, and without growth there's no money for welfare.

The pro-growth policies and spending restraint of Conservatives work.

Reagan proved deficits don't matter.

The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our strength.