Paul Ryan Quotes

The budget doesn't have much control over the government. Then again, the government doesn't have much control over the budget.

A two-year budget is not an ideology.

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.

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

Government can’t deliver a free lunch to the country as a whole. It can, however, determine who pays for lunch.

You spend a billion here and a billion there. Sooner of later it adds up to real money.

Balanced budgets have a lot to do with National Defense.

Between debt and taxes Americans had usually chosen debt.

If I hear one more Republican tell me about balancing the budget, I am going to strangle them.

Today we care about budgets more than anything. Our American future hangs on the ability of government to cut budget.

The president has borrowed more money to spend to less effect than anybody on the planet.

Hearing politicians tell us we can't afford a tax cut is like listening to a glutton tell you he can't afford a diet. In no other context do people talk about paying for money they don't have. I can't pay for your refusal to give me money because I need a yacht.

Now, people when I say that look at me and say, 'What are you talking about, Joe? You're telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?'. The answer is yes, that's what I'm telling you.

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

A trillion here, a trillion there and pretty soon you're talking about real money.

Obama did inherit a deficit when he came into office. Why this fact justifies racking up vastly more debt and bigger deficits is a logical mystery.

It is time to recognize a simple fact of life. Contrary to what some of my colleagues seem to believe, tax cuts do not pay for themselves.

People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income.

When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 trillion. I think the administration spent too much money.

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

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 don't get spending under control, eventually you're going to have a big tax increase.

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

If we increase spending, we have got to raise taxes or any combination.

You care about the deficit because it allows you to do things you need to do to help people who are suffering.