Kevin Brady Quotes

If you raise taxes, it won't reduce the deficit. The other team will simply spend the resources.

Politicians have a natural inclination to spend in general, even as they disagree fiercely about what, specifically, to spend on.

If Washington were a factory, it would manufacture spending.

It's all right to agree or disagree on the balanced budget amendment. It's all right to talk about how we're going to appropriate.

Like Ike [President Eisenhower] did. Talk economy and then spend away.

Washington does not tax too little: it spends way too much.

We sincerely believed that we don't tax too little in Washington. We spend too much.

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

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

People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income.

Only in Washington does a decrease in the proposed increase equal a spending cut.

There are a lot of anachronisms in Washington, but the need to periodically raise the debt limit by Congressional vote is certainly one of them.

There is a very serious fiscal-policy question of, 'Are we running our overall fiscal policy such that we as a government can pay our bills?'

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.

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

When Mr. Obama entered office, he said all the right things about getting Washington spending under control. He even promised to cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term. Obviously, that didn't happen.

The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.

The supply of government exceeds demand.

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

Governments harangue about deficits to get more revenue so they can spend more.

If the rest of Washington ran as efficiently as this football team there wouldn't be any deficit.

Our system of keeping the federal government's books is a monument to the creativity of mankind ... We've cut government spending for 15 years in a row, and yet have spent more money in each of those years.

I do not pretend to step out of my own sphere and to control the internal management of other departments, but it seems to me that as Secretary of the Treasury, I may ask, that, while peace continues, the aggregate of the expenditure of those departments be kept within bounds such as will preserve the equilibrium between the national revenue and expenditure without recurrence to loans.

The national budget is perhaps the most important and least understood documents in Washington.

There are no uncontrollable outlays except for debt interest. Outlays are what they are due to legislation.