Jeff Flake Quotes

In my political career, I'd like to see a constitutional balanced budget amendment.

It is time we passed a balanced budget amendment and return this government to limited spending.

Our state has a balanced budget. We have to live within our means in the state of Wyoming. I was in the state senate. This country needs a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution.

Our state has a balanced budget. We have to live within our means in the state of Wyoming. I was in the state senate. This country needs a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution. We need to live within our means.

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

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.

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.

The number of realists who are betting that both the 'economy gets healthy soon' and this government gets spending under control is a tiny group, indeed.

I am a deficit hawk.

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

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

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

I'm for a balanced budget now.

It's all right to agree or disagree on the balanced budget amendment. It's all right to talk about how we're going to appropriate.

No one in the modern history of this country, no president, has done more to move toward a balanced budget than has President Bill Clinton.

Make no mistake: I will work with both Democrats and Republicans to cut wasteful spending and reduce our debt in a balanced, responsible way.

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

As I have traveled throughout my Congressional district, the one thing I heard loud and clear was simply please stop spending money you do not have, rein in spending, live within a budget.

Bush has never sent over a balanced budget.

We can't have deficit spending in Texas. You have to balance your budget every two years.

Even with not having a balanced budget at this time, I support tax cuts. That will help limit spending.

States, virtually all of them, have a constitutional requirement to operate on a balanced budget.

When Mr. Obama entered office, he said all the right things about getting Washington spending under control. He even promised to cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term. Obviously, that didn't happen.