Larry Hogan Quotes

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

We're failing when it comes to controlling spending.

The only way to meet the situation [the financial crisis] is spend less money and to run the City of New York within the limits of our resources. Unless you do this, gentlemen, you will have a difficult problem confronting you by the end of this year and the taxpayers of 1922 and the years thereafter will have to pay the price of our present lack of prudence or our unwillingness to economize at the proper time.

Actively search for spending bills that I can veto as a sign of … financial stewardship.

To achieve responsible budget savings, government must be retooled with an effective spending-control system.

My parents taught us to live within our means. It's time to force Washington to do the same.

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.

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

Reduction in taxes will be justified only as we can show we can succeed in bringing the budget under control.... Until we can determine the extent to which expenditures can be reduced, it would not be wise to reduce our revenues.

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

Some states like Nebraska have thus far responsibly managed their budgets, even in tough times, and I could not ask Nebraskans to pay for poor governance elsewhere.

Sometimes you have to make tough decisions to hold the line on spending.

I've been a conservative when it comes to budgeting issues and streamlining government.

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

The American people are tired of the out-of-control spending, and they want Washington to get their act in order and stop spending money we don't have.

As I have traveled throughout my Congressional district, the one thing I heard loud and clear was simply please stop spending money you do not have, rein in spending, live within a budget.

Government does not have a revenue problem; government has a spending problem. Government does not have a revenue problem; government has a priority problem. It is time that we begin to fine tune our focus and decide what the priority of government ought to be.

We in Scotland need fiscal responsibility. Quite simply, we need to be responsible for what we raise in tax and what we spend in tax.

Sequestration was not designed to be anyone's ideal method for getting our hands around government spending, and it certainly isn't mine.

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.

It's insane to try to balance the budget.

I've made a commitment that state spending in Vermont won't grow any more than the rate of inflation plus population growth.

When Mr. Obama entered office, he said all the right things about getting Washington spending under control. He even promised to cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term. Obviously, that didn't happen.

I think what they're looking for is for us to keep our promises and to do the simple things, like cutting spending and being responsible.

There is a difficult leap between talking about balancing the budget and actually doing it.