Robert C. Solomon Quotes

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.

Fiscal discipline is a priority in Romania, and we have already proven we are committed and able to make real progress in this area.

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

Look, I am not worried about Washington cutting too much spending too fast. I mean, the kinds of spending cuts we're talking about just right now are $100 billion out of a $3.7 trillion budget.

Our priority must be to build a path towards balancing the budget, and we cannot tolerate growing deficits.

Well, a deficit reflects an imbalance between spending and revenue, and so narrowing it requires acting on one, the other or both.

We agree with Simpson and Bowles and others who have looked at this. What's necessary is to stabilize the debt and then work from there. You can't balance the budget in the short term because to do that would be to ratchet down the economy.

Fiscal discipline can turn the economy around.

Congress must build on the success of the Budget Control Act.

Only one thing can save this country, and that's to get a handle on this deficit and debt issue.

Any move to reduce government spending is a positive for the economy.

But I think the global economy will understand that the United States has the ability to meet its obligations. But it's not going to be able to do it over the long term if we can't control the growth of government.

We should reduce total government spending as a percentage of the economy. The left wants to focus on the deficit so they can take us away from the focus on spending as a percentage of the economy.

If we don't get a grip on government spending, there will be no growth.

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

Defense spending as a share of the economy dropped significantly during the early 1990s, and that was one of the things, along with other policy changes, that put us back on the path to a balanced budget.

Fiscal policy is not just, or even not even principally, the purview of the president.

Reducing debt through budgetary consolidation is essential to restoring Europe's financial health.

If it took multiple debt ceiling hikes, I'd rather achieve the savings.

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.

Eurobonds are absolutely wrong. In order to bring about common interest rates, you need similar competitiveness levels, similar budget situations. You don't get them by collectivizing debts.

It's time for the sensible center to rise up and push for a rational approach to our fiscal challenges.

Europe is trying to get its fiscal house in order.

In coming to the Congress as a new Member and becoming a fellow Blue Dog, we have had an opportunity to share and really spend a great deal of time in examining the challenges that our Nation finds itself in in getting its fiscal house in order.