Virginia Foxx Quotes

If we don't make tough decisions today our children are going to have to make much, much tougher decisions tomorrow.

People really are very concerned when they put their head on the pillow at night - they're concerned that America may cease to be what America has been because we are leveraging the future of our children and our grandchildren.

The world must now either accept long-term chaos for the sake of short term comforts or make short term sacrifices for the sake of long term comforts.

The need to incorporate longer term time scales into our societal choices is very real—and right in the lap of our generation.

One of the hardest things in politics is getting a democracy to deal with something now where the payoff is long term or the price of inaction is decades away.

When we look as a society, we've really lost the connection between our actions and the future.

Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

Life is a matter of really tough choices.

There is simply no way we are going to make progress on the enormous challenges we face without making hard choices. It's impossible.

Real vision demands that we make tough choices. Real vision is responsible and it is paid for.

My generation have had it good, and I am really troubled by what we have done with it.

In abandoning the understanding that things - services, goods, wars, and houses - have costs, we risk becoming infantilised, incapable of making decisions about government or finance, and perhaps above all about the environment, the wellbeing of the planet upon which we depend and which our children will inherit from us.

You can make tough decisions that I believe voters for years have asked us to do.

Women oftentimes are the ones making those economic decisions, sitting around the kitchen table and trying to figure out how to pay for rising gas prices or food prices or the health insurance costs. And I think that they see where they expect their leaders in Congress to also make those tough decisions.

We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.

Short-term thinking is the greatest enemy of good government.

The people who control the condition in which we live have no reason to think beyond more than the next five or 10 years.

Hoarding money is not like hoarding grain or food supplies. Moses' advice to the Pharaoh was the right advice for the dark years of Egypt. The Pharaoh had to store up in the seven good years to tide one over for the seven bad years. Egypt needed huge stocks of grain and staples to help its people pull through a severe drought. The ultimate reserve fund for a king is a healthy, vibrant and skilled population

Sustainability is a very tough thing in our government because there are so many different competing priorities.

It’s better to spend the money we have now more wisely than to spend a lot more money after the fact on the dysfunction we’ve created.

We're starting to realize the limitations of oil income, that you can't live the life of Riley forever.

What is prudence in the conduct of every private family, can scarcely be folly in that of a great kingdom.

On Capitol Hill we like to make tough speeches. We don’t like to make tough choices.

Governing is about making tough decisions, but it's also about figuring out a better way to do things.

We can't just live as rentiers off the oil fund.