George Osborne Quotes

My parents taught us to live within our means. It's time to force Washington to do the same.

Our state has a balanced budget. We have to live within our means in the state of Wyoming. I was in the state senate. This country needs a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution. We need to live within our means.

You got to have a courageous president to stand up and says, listen, if - if you send a bill to me that spends more money than what we've coming in, I'll veto it. I mean, I'm going to try to work with you the best I can, but I'm going to veto it.

It is time we passed a balanced budget amendment and return this government to limited spending.

Our state has a balanced budget. We have to live within our means in the state of Wyoming. I was in the state senate. This country needs a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution.

We need real leadership, Democrat, Republican and independent to stand up and say, we have to live within our means.

I think anybody who looks at my record will say I've been trying to cut government spending and make government live more like families do.

I will always vote what I have promised, and always vote the Constitution, as well as I will not vote for one single penny that isn't paid for, because debt is the monster, debt is what's going to eat us up and that is why our economy is on the brink.

Well, first of all, let's go right to it. We're going to balance the budget. We should live within our own means, and we should read the bills and work with the American people.

Disciplined governments do not engage in the economic equivalent of binge eating followed by crash dieting.

States, virtually all of them, have a constitutional requirement to operate on a balanced budget.

There is no real justification for a requirement that a budget of any sort should be balanced, except as a rallying point for those who seek to hamstring government.

We, in a sense, are taking back Uncle Sam's checkbook.

The Federal Government has no fiscal policy, for the tail of political expediency has long wagged the dog of prudent policy in Washington.

Washington has to stop spending money we don’t have for projects we don’t want.

I was fortunate, I guess, to be part of some good fiscal discipline in the Bush administration. The budget I put forward was a balanced budget.

We need to focus on issues where we all agree, which is spending discipline and control and making sure that government, both in Springfield and in Washington, doesn't take more from your family budget.

We are the ones that are trying to get Washington spending under control so it can live within its means.

I'm for a balanced budget now.

Congress must demonstrate fiscal responsibility.

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

Ultimately, we can't just keep doubling our national debt every eight years. We have got to get that under control and not spend more than we bring in.

I am a fiscal conservative.

I came to Washington with a pledge to be a fiscally conservative.

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.