Theresa May Quotes

I have done everything I can to move Britain out of the financial danger zone.

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.

I don't want the federal government to rush in and bail the out right away.

When I took over, the economy had almost collapsed. I told Malawians we needed to pass through difficult times. Two days ago I even cut my own salary by 30% to show we are making sacrifices.

We have major fiscal problems on our hand.

The most important point is, in a time of crisis, there is no way out but for the government to be bold and aggressive.

We cannot collect enough taxes to catch up with spending. Do I know a solution? Not really. Do your politicians know a solution? Does our commander-in-chief offer a solution? Absolutely not.

Our national finances are in a ruinous state.

Tell Dr. Madison that we are now willing to submit to his Philadelphia lawyer for head of the Treasury. The public patient is so very sick that we must swallow anything, however nauseous.

If we don't get a grip on government spending, there will be no growth.

Once our country is fully engulfed in a debt crisis, our economy will be torn apart, and every American will be a victim of the federal government's failure to prevent this disaster.

Defense spending as a share of the economy dropped significantly during the early 1990s, and that was one of the things, along with other policy changes, that put us back on the path to a balanced budget.

If we continue to allow the federal government to live beyond its means, we will all soon have to live beneath ours.

I think there is a shared sense of urgency in Washington on fiscal issues.

Our problem is not adopting reforms, which we will do without question. It is not reaching an objective, which we will meet. But it is finding an end to the recession.

The Prime Minister in the UK thinks spending and borrowing more is the right thing to do in the circumstances, and is busily trying to bail out chunks of the private sector which would otherwise have to adjust more quickly to the painful reality that we have been living beyond our means.

The financial crisis in our country is not a passing storm. Given the size of the problems, our national effort will not be completed in 2012. It will take many years and will require the efforts and insistence of several governments.

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

As families and small businesses alike are tightening their belts to account for the worsening economy, they have every right to ask: 'Why isn't my government doing the same?'

There is not a country on earth that could get its fiscal house in order by shrinking opportunity and depressing growth.

The world has conducted a massive macro-economic experiment since the cataclysm of 2008. In Europe, the fans of austerity have had their chance, and the results have been a disaster.

Obama's explanation for the slowdown in economic growth is that the public sector is hurting, and that's where Washington must step in and act.

The more we can do to address fiscal austerity, the better our markets will do, and there is a real political shift to doing that.

The closest thing you ever get to a cut is a decrease in the rate of increase of government spending.

I've been Secretary of the Treasury for 147 days, and in that 147 days I've written $133 billion worth of hot checks.