Nikki Haley Quotes

George W. Bush is a big spender…. When Congress sends up a bill with big. fat, crackling pork, he says, “Where’s the barbecue sauce?”

Ask yourself if these Democrats still speak for you. When they say we have a duty to grow government even when we can't afford it, does it sound like compassion to you - or recklessness?

If you refuse to acknowledge that there is any waste that can be culled from the military budget, you are a big-government conservative, and you cannot lay claim to balancing the budget.

There's not an appropriations bill in the last 10 years that the-that Democrats passed in the Congress. We haven't spent any money of your taxes in the last decade.

I think it's the broadest source of dissatisfaction amongst Republicans, out-of-control spending.

Conservative think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and Cato Institute have criticized Bush for his big increases in spending, which far exceed those of the Clinton era.

You know, when Republicans were in charge, we doubled the debt. But, now, our concern is the Democrats are in charge and they're tripling the debt. So, really, our concern is that we want smaller government.

We laugh at liberals who declare that their favorite spending programs should be exempt because the spending is for a noble cause.

I've criticized Republicans for their lack of fiscal discipline when they controlled Congress before 2007. However, that is no excuse to just continue with more of the same or, as the case is now, to make it worse. Under House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's budget, we will double the national debt in five years and triple it in 10.

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

Every Democrat on Capitol Hill professes to be a fiscal hawk.

I think Americans all across this country want more of those types of delaying tactics to slow down this runaway train of massive Federal spending.

Last year 100,000 people gathered on The Mall to Protest the deficit. We Republicans, over and over, castigated President Obama for creating a Trillion dollar deficit. I was against big deficits then, and I am agaist them now. Just because it is now Republicans doing all the spending, I am still opposed.... Those Republcians who voted for a tax cut and a spending increase are hypocrites.

We must cut federal spending - every wasted dollar, every low priority program, and every unconstitutional overreach - every day.

When I get to Washington, I'll know how to cut pork. Washington is full of big spenders. Let's make them squeal.

There is no ground on which House Republican leaders should compromise until Democrats are finally ready to give up their spending addiction.

The main issue is huge government spending, and my record has been trying to make sure the federal government lives within its means. I guess that's really what separates where Republicans have been from the Democrats.

I've heard enough of Democrats claiming a balanced approach.

I don't think I can sell to our voters in our district that there's nothing to cut in the federal budget. Nobody, I think, sees that or would agree with that.

I'm not a professional politician. I'm a professional problem solver, and I believe we should cut the salaries of senators and congressmen 10 percent until they balance the budget. I call that conservative common sense.

Every American knows there are government expenses that are absolutely not necessary. I disagree with the very idea that our government is spending $2.4 trillion in the most efficient manner.

The one word that no politician will ever speak, is 'enough.' Enough.

There's a lot of things we can do to balance out what Obama's done and going forward show the American people the Republican Party can govern. I want a coalition of tea party people, independents, moderate Democrats trying to find a way to move this country forward before we become Greece.

Now, so, if you want to blame someone for wasteful spending, the Republicans are in the majority.

Only in Washington does a decrease in the proposed increase equal a spending cut.