Cullen Hightower Quotes

The average Tea Partier is sincerely against government spending - with the exception of the money spent on them.

Donors, like voters, increasingly expect candidates to exercise fiscal discipline.

At the end of the day, the only things that are shovel ready around here are the words coming out of Barack Obama and Joe Biden's mouth.

There is no such thing as a 'free' government benefit. Ask small-business owners who are footing skyrocketing bills for bottomless jobless benefits.

Our constituents did not send us to Washington to shut down the government. They sent us here to make it more accountable.

I’m not going to pay for that fucking wall,

American voters should understand that Congress will always find a way to spend every last dollar sent to Washington.

Now in business we do a cost benefit analysis before we make policy changes. Washington should as well.

We simply can't keep providing money from the federal government in the form of subsidized or actual loans and Pell Grants when we don't have the money.

The belief that recipients of government aid are better off the more we spend on them is remarkably persistent. No matter how many times this central tenet of liberalism gets debunked, like Brett Favre, it just keeps coming back.

When they call the slightest spending reductions 'painful', we will say 'If government spending prevents pain, why are we suffering so much of it?' And 'If you want to experience real pain, just stay on the track we are on.'

Conservatives should insist that defense spending be examined with the same seriousness that we demand in examining the books of those government agencies that spend taxpayer money in the name of welfare, the environment, or education.

What I'm not saying is that all government spending is bad. It's not - far, far from it, but there is no free lunch, as a former colleague of mine used to say. There is no public tooth fairy. Father Christmas does not work on the Treasury staff this year. You can never bail someone out of trouble without putting someone else into trouble.

I am fighting vigorously for less spending, less waste and limited government. I strongly believe that the more government grows, the less freedom Americans have.

Big government doesn't work! It just doesn't work!

There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as 'caring' and 'sensitive' because he wants to expand the government's charitable programs is merely saying that he's willing to try to do good with other people's money.

After almost 50 years in which federal spending averaged about 20 percent of GDP, Joe Sestak and Nancy Pelosi took federal spending to 25 percent. You know, that's a 25 percent increase in the size of the government overnight. That's what we - that's what we've got to rein in.

There are bills being discussed to raise the amount that Members of Congress pay in to their benefits and I support these pieces of legislation.

To be fair, Republicans are not blameless. The deficit began to spiral out of control on President Bush's watch.

My slogan when I ran was that there is no such thing as government money, there is only taxpayer's money, and that cut pretty deep.

In the American democracy the voter has a choice between a party that promises not to raise taxes and then raises them, and a party that makes no promises and raises them.

No amount of promises to the needy at election time will make the wrong policies rights; nor would lessen the enormous price we have to pay for them.

Saying is one thing and doing is another.

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

I don’t want to kill the government. I just want to shrink it down to a small enough size that I can flush it down the toilet.