Virgil Goode Quotes

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

What we do want to see is reforms that are going to have a permanent effect on the budget deficit.

The American people are tired of the out-of-control spending, and they want Washington to get their act in order and stop spending money we don't have.

The Gillard government must give up its addiction to wasteful spending borrowing and taxing.

The message from the United States and Europe is that governments must live within their means.

The President has a short time to let people know that he is serious about getting spending under control.

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.

If you force legislators to balance, at the end of the day, if it has to be balanced, then they step up and they become legislators and can find out where to cut.

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

The American people reject the idea of giving Washington a blank check to increase the debt limit.

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.

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

Cutting budget deficits can never be just an exercise in economics.

Today is the day for the complaining to end and for statesmanship to begin. Today I am taking action to cut state spending and balance the budget this year.

In a clean break from the Obama years, and frankly from the years before this president, we will keep federal spending at 20 percent of GDP, or less. That is enough. The choice is whether to put hard limits on economic growth, or hard limits on the size of government, and we choose to limit government.

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

We must take away the government's credit card. With limits on both tax revenue and borrowing, the Federal government would finally be forced to get serious about spending cuts.

Our priority must be to build a path towards balancing the budget, and we cannot tolerate growing deficits.

I am a deficit hawk.

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.

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

There is no real justification for a requirement that a budget of any sort should be balanced, except as a rallying point for those who seek to hamstring government.

The deficit only became a big problem in the Reagan-Bush years. For 12 years, Republican presidents talked about balancing the budget, but failed to propose one.

The budget should be balanced, the treasury should be refilled, the public debt should be reduced and the arrogance of public officials should be controlled.

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.