Kathleen Blanco Quotes

Arizona faces many challenges ahead. None is more important or more pressing than passing a new state budget.

Most people who talk about either entitlement cuts or revenue - when you have to put pen to paper, it is much more difficult.

A government decision that slashes spending at the wrong time and sends a weak economy into a tailspin can be just as undisciplined as one that unleashes a wasteful spending spree in an overheated environment.

As Vermont's senator and a member of the Budget Committee, I will not support a plan to reduce the deficit that does not call for shared sacrifice.

In the middle of a recession no tax increase is justified because it kills jobs, and any tax increase is a job-killing measure and should be defeated.

I believed the only thing that could turn around this government spending and mounting debt would be if the people rose up.

Funding for sports (and the arts) are often the first things facing the chop in difficult times.

In tough times, everyone has to take their share of the pain.

During the campaign for re-election, Barack Obama at least made vague references to a willingness to accept $3 trillion of reduced spending in exchange for a $1 trillion dollar tax increase.

Difficult economic conditions require us to face difficult economic choices.

We have no choice but to make our local government fit the size of our local economy. We must all bear our share of the pain.

We are going to have to make some very difficult choices, because state government cannot continue to spend more than it takes in.

In difficult economic times, I'm firmly opposed to austerity.

You cannot cut your way to deficit reduction.

Why is it when times get rough only the people have to look for ways to cut back? Why is this always just absolutely impossible for government?

In these tough economic times, everybody has to cut back. I am down to three tabs of ecstasy a day.

Back in 2008, candidate Obama called a $10 trillion national debt 'unpatriotic' - serious talk from what looked to be a serious reformer. Yet by his own decisions, President Obama has added more debt than any other president before him, and more than all the troubled governments of Europe combined. One president, one term, $5 trillion in new debt.

I think the financial restraint really pushes me as a director to be more creative with the way I shoot the film.

The best way for the Government to maintain its credit is to pay as it goes-not by resorting to loans, but by keeping out of debt-through an adequate income secured by a system of taxation, external or internal, or both.

When the fountains of government [borrowing] abundance began to dry up, when through lack of funds and the impossibility of negotiating fresh loans the state was forced to check the extension of bureaucracy and to put a stop to public works, then and then only did the Italians realize what it meant to have allowed themselves to be made one of the most heavily taxed nations in the world.

Governments are necessarily continuing concerns. They have to keep going in good times and in bad. They therefore need a wide margin of safety. If taxes and debt are made all the people can bear when times are good, there will be certain disaster when times are bad.

I believe, as a matter of principle, that the debt is a problem that must be addressed sooner rather than later. I also know that fundamental changes are necessary in the way Washington spends and taxes if we truly want a healthy economy.

Governments don't reduce deficits by raising taxes on the people; governments reduce deficits by controlling spending and stimulating new wealth.

We act in a pragmatic and careful manner. We reduce spending on budget items that do not constitute a priority.

Print is still responsible for a significant portion of the revenues that, you know, pay for the work of the newsroom. But, you know, digital is very important. And part of the thrill of having this job now is I get to lead us through what is both a thrilling and very challenging transition from a print world to a digital world.