Patrick J. Kennedy Quotes

I think you're going to see a number of Democrats that do want to see us grapple with spending.

In my political career, I'd like to see a constitutional balanced budget amendment.

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

Well, I'm going to try to make a real difference in Washington's spending patterns.

President Clinton was able to achieve budget surpluses despite a divided government.

You will see the President being very, very tough on spending.

Without the general taxes there can be no unity, and without unity, no concentration, and without this no economies can be implemented … the country is lost.

But I think the global economy will understand that the United States has the ability to meet its obligations. But it's not going to be able to do it over the long term if we can't control the growth of government.

A Syriza government will respect Greece's obligation as a eurozone member to maintain a balanced budget and will commit to quantitative targets.

At the same time, Clinton was doing a lot things right, like the economy.

It's all right to agree or disagree on the balanced budget amendment. It's all right to talk about how we're going to appropriate.

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.

There's a stability and growth pact which was agreed for the eleven countries which tries to limit the size of budget deficits among the eleven countries.

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

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

What will growth policy have to look like in a fiscally compacted Europe? Clearly any illusion of budget stimulated growth policy will have to go away.

When Bill Clinton was in town, he sent over a balanced budget.

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

The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.

In coming to the Congress as a new Member and becoming a fellow Blue Dog, we have had an opportunity to share and really spend a great deal of time in examining the challenges that our Nation finds itself in in getting its fiscal house in order.

America needs jobs, smaller government, less spending and a president with the courage to offer more than yet another speech.

You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt.

Obama hasn't passed a budget in four years, he's a wuss. Obama has rejected the recommendation of his own Simpson-Bowles, on a budget package, he's a wuss. He wants to lead from behind, he's a wuss!

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.