Victor Ponta Quotes

Without deficit reduction, we cannot have sustained economic growth.

Without a doubt, first thing we should do is clean up our fiscal house, and that starts with balancing our budgets and digging out of this red ink. We cannot expect to continue in this fashion and remain the leader of the free world.

I think achieving a higher fiscal stability is also a very important condition for restoring an environment which is conducive to growth.

Japan's future prospects depend on ensuring fiscal sustainability over the long term.

If it took multiple debt ceiling hikes, I'd rather achieve the savings.

We have to reduce the burden placed on our economy by years of deficits and debt.

If we didn't propose these reforms, we would not have proposed a budget that got the debt under control.

Tonight I come before you to announce that the Federal Deficit will be simply zero.

Honest people can disagree on policy. But where there can be no honest disagreement is the need to change our nation's debt course.

As always, it would be important to ensure that any fiscal policy changes did not compromise long-run fiscal sustainability.

You could make a case for job creation or education, police on the street, but none of those things can happen unless we got our financial house in order.

We want to send a clear message that the Mexican government won't endanger its fiscal position, and we will remain on a path of fiscal responsibility.

Europe's budget plans are better designed: countries from France to Greece are raising retirement ages; others, from Britain to Germany, have created new organisations and rules to encourage fiscal probity. But Europe risks overkill.

But I think the global economy will understand that the United States has the ability to meet its obligations. But it's not going to be able to do it over the long term if we can't control the growth of government.

The Tea Party knows that continuing to delay charting a course to spending reform hurts everybody.

As the President reviewed the state of the union and unveiled his second-term agenda, he fell short of adequately explaining how he intends to set America back on the course of fiscal responsibility and secure the fiscal health of the nation.

Make no mistake: I will work with both Democrats and Republicans to cut wasteful spending and reduce our debt in a balanced, responsible way.

Sound public finances are the essential foundation on which to construct a better-balanced economy from the wreckage of Labour's boom and bust. But it is economic growth that will create the jobs and the prosperity for the future and enable us to pay down Labour's debt.

In coming to the Congress as a new Member and becoming a fellow Blue Dog, we have had an opportunity to share and really spend a great deal of time in examining the challenges that our Nation finds itself in in getting its fiscal house in order.

Restoring responsibility and accountability is essential to the economic and fiscal health of our nation.

In the medium and long term. Spain is solvent and able to pay its high debts. In the short-term, we have the capacity to meet our obligations.

It's insane to try to balance the budget.

I will work to restore fiscal responsibility to our country's budget and to provide for a more robust economy.

The right way to deal with a budget problem that was years in the making is by formulating a credible plan to reduce the deficit over time and as the economy is able to withstand the necessary fiscal belt-tightening. That is what President Obama is doing.

I think where I differ a little bit, we absolutely have to think about the deficit looking down the road. And certainly that's something the president has said that we need to, as the economy recovers, have a plan in place for getting it down.