Milton Friedman Quotes

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

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

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

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

I can tell you if you look at the polls, Democrats, Republicans, Independents, they do not think we should increase the debt limit.

When Mr. Obama entered office, he said all the right things about getting Washington spending under control. He even promised to cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term. Obviously, that didn't happen.

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

A long term tax cut is not a tax cut at all unless it is accompanied by a spending cut.

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

The era of deficit denial is over

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

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.

There is no ground on which House Republican leaders should compromise until Democrats are finally ready to give up their spending addiction.

You know, when Republicans were in charge, we doubled the debt. But, now, our concern is the Democrats are in charge and they're tripling the debt. So, really, our concern is that we want smaller government.

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.

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'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.

I am a deficit hawk.

Tony Blair and Gordon Brown committed to John Major's spending envelopes in 1997. No-one said that Tony Blair and John Major were identical. This happens quite often that parties actually, despite all the sound and fury, agree on the overall need to make sure that we live within our means as a country.

On economic policy, my support of smaller government, lower taxes and economic reform is consistent with the mainstream of the Republican Party in the United States and with many Democrats as well.

Every Democrat on Capitol Hill professes to be a fiscal 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.