Hugh Sidey Quotes

Even with not having a balanced budget at this time, I support tax cuts. That will help limit spending.

My opponent Senator Menendez and his colleagues are pursuing what I consider a Jon Corzine economic policy. Higher taxes, more spending, more debt.

I think to balance the budget, probably every federal department has to take cuts in my opinion.

The Tea Party knows that continuing to delay charting a course to spending reform hurts everybody.

We are worried about the size of the deficit, which is why the president is pleased that the House and Senate have followed his lead in cutting the deficit in half over the next five years.

Deficits must be cut, yes, but the rush to austerity risks undermining the fragile global recovery.

Of course we have to address the deficit if we win.

Memo to Congress: America's problem is not that government is too small. It's the spending, stupid!

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

I came to Congress to help reduce spending.

You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt.

Now make no mistake, I think we need a strong dose of fiscal conservatism in Washington, D.C.

First of all, I don't like to speak about austerity. I'd prefer to speak of fiscal discipline. Fiscal discipline, in the end, amounts to austerity if it is not accompanied by other policies.

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!

The goal is to reduce the size and scope of government spending, not to focus on the deficit. The deficit is the symptom of the disease.

Every day things get better because politicians are addressing the fiscal challenges more aggressively.

You just don't see people running through the streets to have the deficit cut.

Those who make the most and loudest speeches about deficit reduction are least likely to vote against spending.

Trying to balance the budget through defense cuts is both counterproductive and impossible.

It certainly would be helpful going forward for deficit reduction efforts to focus on the medium term while not subtracting from the impetus we need to keep a fragile economy moving forward.

It's much more powerful to say I'm working to reduce spending, deal with our nation's deficit, push back on the federal government, and give specifics for that rather than just say, 'I'm a conservative.'

I believe very firmly that we can get to balanced budgets without raising taxes and without cutting transfers to the provinces or to individuals.

Not in the constitution, but I would propose a law to the French parliament that provides for reducing the budget deficit year by year, until we have reached a balanced budget by 2017.

Gradual fiscal consolidation may also be stimulative in the short run.

We'll set our approach to borrowing, to spending, to taxation, in a sensible way on a sensible timescale.