Steve Chabot Quotes

And basically, the sense of the 'Pledge to America' is this: Republicans understand when we were in charge, we got fired in '06. We spent too much money. We defied the trust that the people had put in us. And we know that there is a better way.

You got to have a courageous president to stand up and says, listen, if - if you send a bill to me that spends more money than what we've coming in, I'll veto it. I mean, I'm going to try to work with you the best I can, but I'm going to veto it.

I was able to promote a strong defense budget when it could have been cut a lot more severely.

We've not had one Republican president in 34 years balance the budget. You can't trust right-wing Republicans with your money. You ought to hire somebody who has balanced a budget. I'm much more conservative with money than George Bush is.

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 Republican Party once could lay claim to the mantle of being the fiscally responsible, or 'Daddy,' Party.

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

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

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

Although virtually all Republicans campaign on fiscal restraint, how many actually care about it deeply?

I think it's the broadest source of dissatisfaction amongst Republicans, out-of-control spending.

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.

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.

Only in Washington does a decrease in the proposed increase equal a spending cut.

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.

Sequestration is leverage that should not be given up easily.

In a clean break from the Obama years, and frankly from the years before this president, we will keep federal spending at 20 percent of GDP, or less. That is enough. The choice is whether to put hard limits on economic growth, or hard limits on the size of government, and we choose to limit government.

We can't have deficit spending in Texas. You have to balance your budget every two years.

I remember my Republican Party as fiscally conservative, as caring about the environment.

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

States, virtually all of them, have a constitutional requirement to operate on a balanced budget.

I am a deficit hawk.

Being a defense hawk and a budget hawk are not mutually exclusive.

Monetary discipline forces fiscal discipline on the politicians as well.