Larry Elder Quotes

Only in Washington do you hear a budget increase described as a cut.

Like Ike [President Eisenhower] did. Talk economy and then spend away.

We are the ones that are trying to get Washington spending under control so it can live within its means.

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

Look, I am not worried about Washington cutting too much spending too fast. I mean, the kinds of spending cuts we're talking about just right now are $100 billion out of a $3.7 trillion budget.

Even with not having a balanced budget at this time, I support tax cuts. That will help limit spending.

I am a deficit hawk.

Normally, when politicians talk about 'cutting the budget,' they really mean reducing the amount of increase. Actual spending goes up while the politicians claim to have 'cut the budget.'

The best thing to hold down spending is to have a Democratic President and a Republican Congress.

I personally do not worship at the alter of a balanced budget.

Those who make the most and loudest speeches about deficit reduction are least likely to vote against spending.

The Federal Government has no fiscal policy, for the tail of political expediency has long wagged the dog of prudent policy in Washington.

Washington has to stop spending money we don’t have for projects we don’t want.

The function of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, as I understand it, is to resist all demands for expenditure made by his colleagues and, when he can no longer resist, to limit the concession to the barest point of acceptance.

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.

Every debate in Washington is about how much to increase spending - a little or a lot.

If Washington were a factory, it would manufacture spending.

How does one leave Social Security and Medicare untouched, grow defense by more than $50 billion, slash taxes, launch a $1 trillion infrastructure program - and not explode the deficit and national debt?

Let's establish that no one in Washington actually cares about balancing the budget.

Putting the budget ahead of the policy is the wrong way to do it. It's too often the way it's done in Washington.

Should we freeze or postpone prospective tax cuts and avoid any new tax cuts until we are sure we have the money to pay for the war on terrorism and the war in Iraq.

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

The American people are tired of the out-of-control spending, and they want Washington to get their act in order and stop spending money we don't have.

As American families and businesses have been forced to tighten their belts, Washington has refused to do the same.

I'd be a lot more excited about eliminating earmarks if we reduced all of the spending by whatever the earmarks used to be, but nobody's, apparently, going to talk about doing that.