Steve Stivers Quotes

When millions of Americans are tightening their belts, folks have the right to expect their elected officials to do the same.

Austerity [in the Defense Department] meant that risks had to be managed, not eliminated.

We need to stop this overspending. We need to start turning this battleship in the right direction. And we all have to share in the sacrifice.

As Indiana's governor, I balanced eight budgets, never raised taxes, and left the largest surplus in state history. It wasn't always easy. Cuts had to be made and some initiatives deferred. Occasionally I had to say 'no.'

What you don't do, if you're an adult, is decide that you're going to budget things through a sequester. What does that word have to do with budgeting? It's like if you have a family budget and go, 'We really don't know what to take out economically from the budget, so we're going to whack out protein for this week.'

Again, the American people expect us to do what they are doing. It's tightening the belt, it's learning how to do more with less. That's a reality today, and we've got to do that in order to get the private sector growing.

I've made more cuts than any governor has ever made.

At a time of tight budgets, unless something is really broken and not working, they [his congressional colleagues] just don't get excited about it.

When they talk about belt-tightening in Washington, they are talking about tightening our belts.

We all have to sacrifice to reduce the debt, but we can’t sacrifice our future.

Contrary to … conventional wisdom, the consequence of past U. S. Defense cuts were not bad …. austerity can be useful in forcing Washington to think strategically, something it rarely does when times are flush.

Actively search for spending bills that I can veto as a sign of … financial stewardship.

I would submit a balanced budget if elected president, and it would be painful.

I've been a conservative when it comes to budgeting issues and streamlining government.

Increased spending, all these favors that we got to do for people - it's got to stop.

Austerity has led us to a terrible philosophy where we think we've got to cut back on everything that's 'frippery', like the arts.

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.

Everyone is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditure.

You know, even people who talk about cutting spending and they go 'That's not the spending that I was actually talking about that you're supposed to be cutting.' Well, we have to be looking across the board.

What I wanted to do was see if we couldn't balance the budget.

Deficits must be cut, yes, but the rush to austerity risks undermining the fragile global recovery.

When businesses face tough times, one of the first items they cut is overhead expenses. The government should do the same.

No one cuts backs like he did. No one knows what a back is anymore.

I'm trying to set a good example. I don't need to take a high salary, which would impede the success of Morningstar.

I have a record as governor. I have a record of cutting spending. And I talked yesterday not only about we ought to cut spending, I talked about how we've cut spending in Mississippi and how if you did the same things in the federal government, you would save tens of billions of dollars a year.