Steve Scalise Quotes

Now make no mistake, I think we need a strong dose of fiscal conservatism in Washington, D.C.

I am a small-government conservative who clings tenaciously and old-fashionedly to the idea that one ought to have balanced budgets.

We need to pass conservative policy. And we can only advance our values when we are united.

What I say is I am somebody who cares about conservative ideas. I want to see them implemented in governance.

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.

Today it is evident that we have two political parties: the Tax and Spenders and the No-Tax and Spenders. Neither party is fiscally conservative. Is there no room at the inn for an honest conservative? A conservative who makes the case for smaller government on its merits and not just as the fallback option when fiscal bankruptcy threatens?

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

Fortunately, good policy, true principles, and effective leadership work whenever they are tried. When we reduce government, balance budgets, and keep taxes as low as possible, states respond in a positive way.

I've got the conservative ideas for putting our country back on track.

We have proven that conservative principles work: less taxes, less government, and more freedom.

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.

The Tea Party knows that continuing to delay charting a course to spending reform hurts everybody.

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.

The slogan of the moderate Republican Party is this: we are rich, and we are not going to take it any more.

In Wisconsin, I led the Assembly to a balanced budget in face of fierce opposition from the status quo.

It should surprise no one that I'm out arguing for small government, reduced spending and getting our financial house in order, along with reasonable regulations and no more.

I like to say I'm more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax.

We've got a strong group of Republicans who are conservatives who know that their jobs aren't finished when they finish their speech.

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

As a fiscal conservative, I think that our government should pay for itself.

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.

I think Governor Romney has a two-part budget plan that very much levels with voters far more so than any candidate in my lifetime.

The Tea Party has imparted political energy to common-sense American constitutionalism.

Look, I'm very much in favor of tax cuts, but not with borrowed money. And the problem that we've gotten into in recent years is spending programs with borrowed money, tax cuts with borrowed money, and at the end of the day that proves disastrous. And my view is I don't think we can play subtle policy here.

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