Jeff Sessions Quotes

What's really important to me is that we have fiscally responsible balanced budgets.

Our national leaders could learn some good habits and important lessons from city hall to take the place of the various gimmicks being used in Washington to duck federal budget responsibility.

What I wanted to do was see if we couldn't balance the budget.

We have been spending beyond our means, we are going to focus on the projects that we committed to in the election but importantly if there is additional projects or new things that come up they have to have a business case, they have to work and they can't impose financial stress on families and private individuals and businesses.

We're going to have to control the spending of government.

I think the whole issue of a debt ceiling makes no sense to me whatsoever. Anybody who is remotely adroit at arithmetic doesn't need a debt ceiling to tell you where you are.

Restoring responsibility and accountability is essential to the economic and fiscal health of our nation.

I have voted to make tough decisions in budgetary times, I've served on two recessionary budgets, my opponent has never served on any a budget committee where there was less money to spend than the year before.

The failure to work out sensible budgets makes it impossible for government agencies to make long-term plans, and instead leaves them scrambling to spend money in the short term.

Let us act with our eyes open. We are going to have a deficit next fiscal year and the year after that.

I am a governor who left office with a smaller general fund budget than when we started.

Budgets can make or break reputations and governments.

Remarkably, there are leaders in Washington who don't understand why it's so important for us to have a budget.

We'll set our approach to borrowing, to spending, to taxation, in a sensible way on a sensible timescale.

We Hoosiers hold to some quaint notions. Some might say we 'cling' to them, though not out of fear or ignorance. We believe in paying our bills. We have kept our state in the black throughout the recent unpleasantness, while cutting rather than raising taxes, by practicing an old tribal ritual - we spend less money than we take in.

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

The budget is tight, and that is exactly where we want it to be and where we need it to be.

The American people, in their own families, they understand that you have to do that. You have to make the tough decisions. You have to get your budget. You have got to put it in order. And they expect their elected officials and their leaders to do likewise.

All the states are required, either by constitution or by statute, to have balanced budgets - they're not able to print money. So they have to focus on establishing priorities.

I was the chairman of the House Budget Committee and one of the chief architects the last time we balanced a budget, and it was the first time we had done it since man walked on the moon. We had a $5 trillion surplus and we cut taxes.

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

Everyone knows the U.S. economy shouldn't be so reliant on consumption. More investments should be made.

The reason we have such a reform budget is because we've been thinking about these things for a long time.

My hope is that we're going to be more strategic and focused as we look for a way to address the long-term deficit and debt issues that are affecting this nation.

Leaders should not just talk about - but walk the walk of - fiscal conservatism.