Chris Gibson Quotes

Now, 'the fiscal cliff' is a name that the media came up with, but some of us have been saying for years, 'You have got to stop the out of control federal spending, or you will end up at this point.' We're there.

I really truly worry that the debt is one of the single biggest threat to the United States of America, that we're talking about a problem that is multi-trillion in its depth and I think we ought to be cutting more.

But if they want to really think about the fiscal future of this country, then think about how we have moved from hundreds of billions of surpluses to hundreds of billions of deficits.

The American people will eventually get hurt by this accumulated deficit. That's the problem. We have too much deficit. We have to find a solution.

Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.

The country is facing a fiscal crisis, and the United States Senate is at the center of the debate about how to bring federal spending under control.

We're on the verge of a financial collapse unless we balance the budget, and that means some really, really tough decisions.

In order to reduce the deficit, there has to be revenue in addition to cuts.

Our national finances are in a ruinous state.

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

I don't see why anybody's playing chicken with the debt ceiling.

We need to resist the temptation to create more entitlements and more entitlements, which is one of the reasons we are heading recklessly toward fiscal crisis.

If you're worried about the deficit, pay attention to the fact that it's almost all attributable to military spending and the totally dysfunctional health program.

Deficits and debt threaten the growing American economy and our national security over the long term.

Nobody wants the United States to default on its debt. Nobody. But, at some point in time, we've got to address the fiscal woes of this nation.

Deficit, deficit, deficit. The political and media elites are obsessed with the D-word.

The greatest threat to our national security is our debt. We borrow a million dollars a minute.

Now, people when I say that look at me and say, 'What are you talking about, Joe? You're telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?'. The answer is yes, that's what I'm telling you.

Obama did inherit a deficit when he came into office. Why this fact justifies racking up vastly more debt and bigger deficits is a logical mystery.

Restore, without delay, the equilibrium between revenue and expenditures, which has done so much to destroy our credit and derange the whole fabric of government. If that should not be done, the government and country will be involved, ere long, in overwhelming difficulties.

The entitlement state has driven us into insolvency.

This program that the Republican majority has taken us toward as a country is leading us to fiscal bankruptcy.

Under President Obama, we have spent more money - he has spent more money than any other president in this history, actually, the combined total from Washington up to George W. Bush. President Obama has racked up more spending, $1 trillion deficits. And it's time that he join us in this effort to get our fiscal house in order.

We can't continue to kick the can when it comes to the fiscal state of this country.

Is bankrupting this great country the top priority of this administration?