Ted Yoho Quotes

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.

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

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

I don't see why anybody's playing chicken with the debt ceiling.

If we reach the debt ceiling, we don't have to default. Getting to that point just won't allow us to reach new debt.

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

I can tell you if you look at the polls, Democrats, Republicans, Independents, they do not think we should increase the debt limit.

It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to collapse.

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

The only way you can raise the debt ceiling is to change the trajectory of spending - that's my personal preference. But I want the Ways and Means Committee to offer up a solution.

I am a deficit hawk.

Monetary discipline forces fiscal discipline on the politicians as well.

Hikes in the debt ceiling - without any political demands from the opposition party - had been routine until President Obama took office.

The debt ceiling serves no useful purpose.

The debt ceiling is not something to toy with.

Not raising the debt ceiling is not an automatic trigger for a default.

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.

Of course we have to address the deficit if we win.

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

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.

If it took multiple debt ceiling hikes, I'd rather achieve the savings.

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

Bush has never sent over a balanced budget.

I think the whole issue of a debt ceiling makes no sense to me whatsoever. Anybody who is remotely adroit at arithmetic doesn't need a debt ceiling to tell you where you are.

There is a very serious fiscal-policy question of, 'Are we running our overall fiscal policy such that we as a government can pay our bills?'