Michele Bachmann Quotes

We should reduce total government spending as a percentage of the economy. The left wants to focus on the deficit so they can take us away from the focus on spending as a percentage of the economy.

What you really want to do is sit down and find a place that you can control government spending and raise more revenue.

As a fiscal conservative, I think that our government should pay for itself.

The problem is government spends too much. So raising taxes is what politicians do, instead of reducing spending.

Look, I'm very much in favor of tax cuts, but not with borrowed money. And the problem that we've gotten into in recent years is spending programs with borrowed money, tax cuts with borrowed money, and at the end of the day that proves disastrous. And my view is I don't think we can play subtle policy here.

If you could bring to me a majority of people to say that we're going to have $10 of spending cuts for $1 of revenue enhancement, put me in, coach.

Taxes are forever; spending cuts are transitory.

I'm coming to Washington, D.C., to do the people's work. And the people's work has to do with reducing spending and cutting budgets and, and trying to get a grip on the size of government.

Defense spending as a share of the economy dropped significantly during the early 1990s, and that was one of the things, along with other policy changes, that put us back on the path to a balanced budget.

The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.

My opponent Senator Menendez and his colleagues are pursuing what I consider a Jon Corzine economic policy. Higher taxes, more spending, more debt.

Most of the major increases in the debt ceiling have been accompanied by structural changes in the way we raise and spend money.

The goal is to reduce the size and scope of government spending, not to focus on the deficit. The deficit is the symptom of the disease.

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.

We are worried about the size of the deficit, which is why the president is pleased that the House and Senate have followed his lead in cutting the deficit in half over the next five years.

We have to deal with two issues. Spending and taxes.

Memo to Congress: America's problem is not that government is too small. It's the spending, stupid!

When Bill Clinton was in town, he sent over a balanced budget.

I came to Congress to help reduce spending.

Under President Obama, we have spent more money - he has spent more money than any other president in this history, actually, the combined total from Washington up to George W. Bush. President Obama has racked up more spending, $1 trillion deficits. And it's time that he join us in this effort to get our fiscal house in order.

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

I am a deficit hawk.

The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.

If you raise taxes, it won't reduce the deficit. The other team will simply spend the resources.

I think you're going to see a number of Democrats that do want to see us grapple with spending.