Mitt Romney Quotes

I was in the world of business for 25 years. If you didn't balance your budget, you went out of business.

Any government, like individuals and families, cannot spend more than they take in without courting disaster.

Well, let's be clear, I'm the only one on the stage who actually has a five-year budget that balances.

I balanced the budget for four straight years, paid off $405 billion in debt - pretty conservative. The first entitlement reform of your lifetime - in fact, the only major entitlement reform now is welfare.

I won't support any budget, whether it's a Republican or a Democrat budget, that doesn't lead to balance.

Coolidge thought budgets were virtuous. He had his econ straight. He didn't just cut taxes, he also cut the budget.

I have been a strong proponent of pay-as-you-go. Every dollar that I've proposed, I've proposed an additional cut so that it matches.

Near-term deficits are temporary and manageable if - and only if - we keep spending in check, the tax burden low and the economy growing.

Just like families must live within their budgets, the Federal Government must live within its means. We have passed appropriations bills that have been fiscally responsible while recognizing our national priorities.

I think it would help tremendously to have a senator that knows where jobs come from, that knows how to create them, that knows how to bring them back and, importantly, knows what it means to manage billions of dollars' worth of expenses and cut billions of dollars' worth of expenses.

In Congress, I was a relentless advocate for fiscal responsibility.

We're going to have to control the spending of government.

I ran for governor because I was worried about my kids' future. Then, I took on the big government union bosses, and we won. They tried to recall me, and we won. They target us again, and we won. We balanced the budget, cut taxes, and turned our state around with big, bold reforms.

I believe Nebraskans appreciate the fiscal discipline I've brought to state government, balancing the budget without raising taxes and prioritizing education funding.

There are three legs of the stool; spending, entitlements and making the tax code fair and equitable. That's the three legs of the stool. If we do all of those in a responsible, bipartisan way, I think the American people would all be very, very happy.

It's insane to try to balance the budget.

In order to reduce the deficit, there has to be revenue in addition to cuts.

There are some Republicans who say that any time you raise new revenue, you have to have a tax cut to match it. I am not one of those Republicans.

Taxpayers need a businessman who knows how to create jobs, cut costs and balance budgets.

Only when the budget has been balanced and a substantial amount set aside for debt retirement, should we consider tax reduction.

If you don’t balance your budget in business, you go out of business.

The first order of business is the elimination of the annual deficit.

Reduction in taxes will be justified only as we can show we can succeed in bringing the budget under control.... Until we can determine the extent to which expenditures can be reduced, it would not be wise to reduce our revenues.

We combine fiscal responsibility with social responsibility.

We don't have a revenue problem in Annapolis. We have a spending problem we need to control.