Chuck Fleischmann Quotes

Congress must demonstrate fiscal responsibility.

I will always vote what I have promised, and always vote the Constitution, as well as I will not vote for one single penny that isn't paid for, because debt is the monster, debt is what's going to eat us up and that is why our economy is on the brink.

I came to Washington with a pledge to be a fiscally conservative.

All the states are required, either by constitution or by statute, to have balanced budgets - they're not able to print money. So they have to focus on establishing priorities.

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.

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

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.

I think what they're looking for is for us to keep our promises and to do the simple things, like cutting spending and being responsible.

Every Democrat on Capitol Hill professes to be a fiscal 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.

I am a small-government conservative who clings tenaciously and old-fashionedly to the idea that one ought to have balanced budgets.

We need real leadership, Democrat, Republican and independent to stand up and say, we have to live within our means.

Washington, D.C., could learn a few budget lessons from Florida. The contrast between our state and the nation's capital is remarkable.

I was fortunate, I guess, to be part of some good fiscal discipline in the Bush administration. The budget I put forward was a balanced budget.

I'm for a balanced budget now.

I have said before, you don't expect conservative parties to believe in much, but you do expect them to believe in thrift.

Some states like Nebraska have thus far responsibly managed their budgets, even in tough times, and I could not ask Nebraskans to pay for poor governance elsewhere.

Basically, I'm a fiscal conservative.

Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets.

We Hoosiers hold to some quaint notions. Some might say we 'cling' to them, though not out of fear or ignorance. We believe in paying our bills. We have kept our state in the black throughout the recent unpleasantness, while cutting rather than raising taxes, by practicing an old tribal ritual - we spend less money than we take in.

I'm not really conservative. I'm conservative on certain things. I believe in less government. I believe in fiscal responsibility and all those things that maybe Republicans used to believe in but don't any more.

Raising the debt limit on some levels is a ministerial act. It doesn't involve any new spending.

The financial report makes it very clear that if we got into honest budgeting today, that in fact we would find ourselves with a much larger deficit than we have today.

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