Larry Hogan Quotes

We've got to take some drastic steps in this country. We can't keep spending and spending.

As American families and businesses have been forced to tighten their belts, Washington has refused to do the same.

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.

The problem is government spends too much. So raising taxes is what politicians do, instead of reducing spending.

We're going to have to raise revenues in some form or fashion, and we're going to have to cut spending, including entitlements of all kind, including the military. We all know this. Lets get on with it.

Taxes are forever; spending cuts are transitory.

Increased spending, all these favors that we got to do for people - it's got to stop.

I'm coming to Washington, D.C., to do the people's work. And the people's work has to do with reducing spending and cutting budgets and, and trying to get a grip on the size of government.

We are worried about the size of the deficit, which is why the president is pleased that the House and Senate have followed his lead in cutting the deficit in half over the next five years.

I came to Congress to help reduce spending.

Regardless of my legislation, spending has to be stopped.

Sequestration was not designed to be anyone's ideal method for getting our hands around government spending, and it certainly isn't mine.

We must take away the government's credit card. With limits on both tax revenue and borrowing, the Federal government would finally be forced to get serious about spending cuts.

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.

To cut the federal budget without cutting entitlements is like giving up chocolate-chip cookies and then deciding it's OK to eat the ones that don't have any nuts.

Traditionally, the way deficits have been cut is you hold expenditures more or less constant in real dollars and then let growth come in to fill it up.

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

Families and businesses are tightening their belts to make ends meet - and Washington should too.

In my view, the biggest challenge facing this country is that we are not living within our means. Spending cuts can only get us halfway there.

Certainly, cutting spending is one of the things that can transcend to the federal government. I mean, I think the federal government has grown by leaps and bounds, and they need to look where do they need to cut.

I'm not going to raise the debt ceiling.

The U.S. federal government may be going broke, but it's not because of NASA.

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.

You know, even people who talk about cutting spending and they go 'That's not the spending that I was actually talking about that you're supposed to be cutting.' Well, we have to be looking across the board.

It's going to be true that anything that reduces the federal deficit will have somebody unhappy.