Timothy Griffin Quotes

The American people are tired of the out-of-control spending, and they want Washington to get their act in order and stop spending money we don't have.

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.

In a clean break from the Obama years, and frankly from the years before this president, we will keep federal spending at 20 percent of GDP, or less. That is enough. The choice is whether to put hard limits on economic growth, or hard limits on the size of government, and we choose to limit government.

The President has a short time to let people know that he is serious about getting spending under control.

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

Today is the day for the complaining to end and for statesmanship to begin. Today I am taking action to cut state spending and balance the budget this year.

I am a deficit hawk.

The Gillard government must give up its addiction to wasteful spending borrowing and taxing.

The function of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, as I understand it, is to resist all demands for expenditure made by his colleagues and, when he can no longer resist, to limit the concession to the barest point of acceptance.

You know government needs a haircut. If we keep their spending down, that's more money in your pocket.

I am a fiscal conservative.

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.

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.

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.

I look at this in a very simple way: I want to bring the debt down.

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

Cutting budget deficits can never be just an exercise in economics.

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

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

I came to Congress to help reduce spending.

Someone has to stay on the line and say, no, we can do this by cutting spending and reducing the size of government. That's what I was committed to doing.

I was able to promote a strong defense budget when it could have been cut a lot more severely.

Our priority must be to build a path towards balancing the budget, and we cannot tolerate growing deficits.

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

Even with not having a balanced budget at this time, I support tax cuts. That will help limit spending.