Rick Santelli Quotes

Look, the president is elected to lead and to face the country's biggest challenges. The country's biggest challenge domestically speaking, no doubt about it, is a debt crisis, and I'm really hoping that he is going to give us a budget that tackles this debt crisis.

The best deficit reduction program is a growing economy.

The outlook for the Federal budget is bleak.

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.

The country is facing a fiscal crisis, and the United States Senate is at the center of the debate about how to bring federal spending under control.

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

In the past, proactive fiscal polices almost always meant just more investment and an increase in the fiscal deficit.

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.

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

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.

I personally don't believe we ought to be raising taxes or cutting spending, either one, until we get this economy off the ground. I'll pay more, but it won't solve the problem.

You just don't see people running through the streets to have the deficit cut.

A dynamic economy, with more citizens working and paying taxes, will be our strongest tool to bring down budget deficits

Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth

If, before 2020, there is a choice between further spending cuts, more borrowing and tax rises, the priority must be to avoid tax increases. They would disrupt consumption, employment and investment.

While deficits are often inflationary and always pernicious, curing them by raising taxes is equivalent to curing an illness by shooting the patient.

Fiscal policy is a very important part of the tool kit for policy makers.

I believe the United States is very sick financially and might not survive another four years of Obama-style leadership.

The party in power almost always unapologetically engages in deficit spending, while the other party argues passionately against the evils of debt and deficits.

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.

We have to deal with two issues. Spending and taxes.

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.

Fiscal policy is not just, or even not even principally, the purview of the president.

What you really want to do is sit down and find a place that you can control government spending and raise more revenue.

We campaigned on the fact that we were going to have to take difficult decisions because of the state of the public finances. When we got into government we discovered that actually the public finances were in an even worse state than we thought.