Geoff Davis Quotes

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

You cannot borrow and spend your way into prosperity. It does not work.

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.

I am a deficit hawk.

There is no real justification for a requirement that a budget of any sort should be balanced, except as a rallying point for those who seek to hamstring government.

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

With its record spending and deficits, the Obama administration has shown little interest in taking fiscal responsibility. That is a mistake.

Now fiscal responsibility is generally a good thing, and so a centrism mindlessly focused on tweaking legislation away from deficit spending has its uses.

I don't have many litmus tests, but this is one: Any candidate who doesn't understand that we need to balance the budget should not be president of the United States.

Bush has never sent over a balanced budget.

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

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

The issue is not growth verses fiscal responsibility. We need both!

I'm for a balanced budget now.

Look at what happened in the 1990s: when they balanced the federal budget, it was through growth in the economy and controlling spending.

We should reduce total government spending as a percentage of the economy. The left wants to focus on the deficit so they can take us away from the focus on spending as a percentage of the economy.

The American people reject the idea of giving Washington a blank check to increase the debt limit.

Defense spending as a share of the economy dropped significantly during the early 1990s, and that was one of the things, along with other policy changes, that put us back on the path to a balanced budget.

Cutting budget deficits can never be just an exercise in economics.

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.

Reagan proved deficits don't matter.

I have a record as governor. I have a record of cutting spending. And I talked yesterday not only about we ought to cut spending, I talked about how we've cut spending in Mississippi and how if you did the same things in the federal government, you would save tens of billions of dollars a year.

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.

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.