Thomas S. Foley Quotes

The best legislator is the one who votes for all appropriations and against all taxes.

I think that for the next short period of time, our No. 1 priority is Congress needs to do its work and extend the payroll tax cut.

When Republicans used reconciliation in 2001 for the Bush tax cuts, they used it to increase the deficit. The whole purpose of reconciliation is for deficit reduction!

I've made a commitment that any tax increase, I'm going to veto. It's the worst thing we could do. We have an amount of money to spend. That's it.

People listen to me, and they hear about a government they want, a government... that will cut spending, cut taxes, that will focus on private-sector job creation.

There's no reason to raise taxes. Taxes should be lower... The problem we have is that government spends too much, not that taxes are too low.

It's all right to agree or disagree on the balanced budget amendment. It's all right to talk about how we're going to appropriate.

I'm not going to raise taxes; I'm not going to have a wage increase for public employees.

The party in power almost always unapologetically engages in deficit spending, while the other party argues passionately against the evils of debt and deficits.

Obama's plan for higher taxes and more spending is a blueprint for perpetual poverty. The last thing America needs is more of the Democrats' class warfare that has left our economy a barren landscape.

What you really want to do is sit down and find a place that you can control government spending and raise more revenue.

Since 1980, we've used reconciliation 22 times, and out of those times, Republicans used it 16 times. So, earth to my Republican friends, you can have your option but you cannot change these facts. They're in the Congressional Record.

The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.

The 1986 tax act is sort of the unsung hero of the very good economic times we had for a long time. Of course, politics gums it all up again and preferences get put in.

No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy - well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I'm President, I never will.

The problem is government spends too much. So raising taxes is what politicians do, instead of reducing spending.

Look, I'm very much in favor of tax cuts, but not with borrowed money. And the problem that we've gotten into in recent years is spending programs with borrowed money, tax cuts with borrowed money, and at the end of the day that proves disastrous. And my view is I don't think we can play subtle policy here.

While the deficit and debt are serious problems, I oppose solving these problems by raising taxes.

Republicans spend and borrow, Democrats tax and spend.

If you ask people do you think that government should spend less money than what it takes in, most people agree with that.

Americans know that we cannot tax and spend our way out of a recession, yet Democrats can't grasp this simple fact.

If you could bring to me a majority of people to say that we're going to have $10 of spending cuts for $1 of revenue enhancement, put me in, coach.

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

Never before in the history of civilization has there been a tax cut in time of war.

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