Chris Christie Quotes

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

I am going to give the American people a huge helping of unbridled truth: that we can't continue to spend what we are spending, that we can't avoid entitlement reform because we are afraid of third rail politics.

I'm coming to Washington, D.C., to do the people's work. And the people's work has to do with reducing spending and cutting budgets and, and trying to get a grip on the size of government.

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

Look, the, the - this country has not lived within its means for a very long time, and, and the truth is we're going to have to take our medicine.

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.

The President must stop gambling with taxpayers' money and get the country back on the path of fiscal sanity.

Government spending clearly needs some adjusting. But a budget is a statement of our priorities, and balancing our spending on the backs of our nation's seniors is not the right approach.

Most of the major increases in the debt ceiling have been accompanied by structural changes in the way we raise and spend money.

We must get rid of deficit spending which finances the political schemes of today by mortgaging the future of tomorrow.

President Obama has contempt for real money.

We can't continue to tax, borrow, and spend at the rates that we are, and it's just got to be stopped.

This country doesn't have a revenue problem - it has a spending problem.

You cannot go out and say, oh, I am going to raise all this spending, but it's not going to cost anybody any money.

Government is just spending too much money.

Should we freeze or postpone prospective tax cuts and avoid any new tax cuts until we are sure we have the money to pay for the war on terrorism and the war in Iraq.

All the states are required, either by constitution or by statute, to have balanced budgets - they're not able to print money. So they have to focus on establishing priorities.

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.

I often quote Ronald Reagan, who is pretty close to my favorite President ever, I will have to say that, but one of my favorite remarks he ever made was that when you look at Federal programs, there is nothing so close to eternal life on Earth as a Federal Government program.

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

I came to Congress to help reduce spending.

A budget matters to people who worry about protecting and saving critical programs like Medicare and Social Security. A budget matters to younger workers who fear that more and more money will be taken from their paychecks to fund another generation's spending spree.

If we don't change the way Washington operates we're going to bankrupt our children and grandchildren.

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

You have to starve the Beast. That's one of the most important things about tax cuts. If you leave the money in Washington, it's going to be spent.