Greg Nickels Quotes

We would certainly encourage the Italian government to put forward an ambitious agenda of reform.

To me, providing a new economic way forward is of utmost urgency and will be of foremost importance for the new DPP administration if I am elected.

When you’ve changed the budget, you’ve really changed the government, and until you change the budget, you’ve just talked about changing government.

Balancing your money is the key to having enough.

What is prudence in the conduct of every private family, can scarcely be folly in that of a great kingdom.

People dislike government spending in the abstract, but the like government spending when they see the benefit.

Without television, Richard Nixon would not have a chance. He would not have a prayer of being elected because the press would not let him get through to the people.

…the bad judgment which is going on in the campaign is beyond all words, but the people of the country are in a humor where they don’t want to hear any reason…They want a change, and I think they are going to get it…

If you don’t have the budget, you can’t get anything done. That’s why bureaucrats are always fighting about budgets.

Between debt and taxes Americans had usually chosen debt.

We give lip service to the importance of deficit reduction, but Americans oppose every single thing that you might do to reduce the deficit.

The revenue you take in should be enough to cover the revenue that you spend and go beyond that to get a reserve. In order to do that we [in California] need cuts and pension reforms, and taxes.

As quickly as you start spending Federal money in large amounts, it looks like free money.

It doesn't cost money to let people keep more of their own money. It costs money to spend money you don't have, but that's another issue.

Budgets reflect our priorities, who we are as a nation, what we're going to put first, and emphasize and invest.

We should improve economic guidance and management as demanded by the developing reality.

Budgets are matters of priority and prioritizing. It's a high priority.

If there's not enough money in the bank account, you don't spend it.

Paying for disasters and being fiscally responsible are not mutually exclusive.

The idea of recklessly spending money - even though it sounds like it's lots of fun, it's fashion - isn't interesting to me. It is a business.

The quantity of a man's wealth will not last long if his generous nature is not balanced with the size of his property.

Who's going to do a better job of spending your money? You or the government?

You can't just take and sample size a few hundred people and decide that what you think 200 - almost 200 million people are going to vote and go do. It's a complex country.

Transparency is our hallmark, and government is acting on the roadmap of economic revolution.

Bill Clinton was a brilliant politician. If President Obama was a brilliant politician he would have come out before the election and said 'Hey we're gonna cut taxes, grow the economy, what I'm doing's not working, and we're gonna change course' like Clinton did.