Ben Quayle Quotes

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.

Reducing debt through budgetary consolidation is essential to restoring Europe's financial health.

You could make a case for job creation or education, police on the street, but none of those things can happen unless we got our financial house in order.

Reforming PERA will strengthen and improve Colorado's all-important long term standing with credit rating agencies.

We have to honor our commitments to today's beneficiaries, but we can't solve the growing deficit and debt problems unless we are smart, courageous, and sensible in planning for future.

If we are to maintain our position as a global economic leader, we've got to end the govern-by-crisis mentality that sets us back instead of moving us forward.

The reason we have such a reform budget is because we've been thinking about these things for a long time.

My hope is that we're going to be more strategic and focused as we look for a way to address the long-term deficit and debt issues that are affecting this nation.

Without a doubt, first thing we should do is clean up our fiscal house, and that starts with balancing our budgets and digging out of this red ink. We cannot expect to continue in this fashion and remain the leader of the free world.

You have to separate what needs to be done to avoid the fiscal cliff and what needs to be done longer range. It's a mistake to essentially collapse those two - they're not the same. I don't think you can achieve everything at once.

Restoring responsibility and accountability is essential to the economic and fiscal health of our nation.

Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.

I think achieving a higher fiscal stability is also a very important condition for restoring an environment which is conducive to growth.

There is a difficult leap between talking about balancing the budget and actually doing it.

The failure to work out sensible budgets makes it impossible for government agencies to make long-term plans, and instead leaves them scrambling to spend money in the short term.

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

We have Triple A Credit but we do not have a Triple A Government

Without deficit reduction, we cannot have sustained economic growth.

The next president is going to be faced with the prospect of realigning our national security interests with our resources—–and for God's sake, getting some certainty into the budget process so we can actually plan.... Instead, we tend to look at things one year at a time.

Fourth, to assure every entrepreneur and every job creator that their investments in America will not vanish as have those in Greece, we will cut the deficit and put America on track to a balanced budget.

As always, it would be important to ensure that any fiscal policy changes did not compromise long-run fiscal sustainability.

Sound public finances are not the enemy of sustained growth - they are its precondition.

We want to send a clear message that the Mexican government won't endanger its fiscal position, and we will remain on a path of fiscal responsibility.

We can't do everything with a budget, but we can put the country on much sounder financial footing.

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.