Dan Webster Quotes

Monetary discipline forces fiscal discipline on the politicians as well.

Well, I think the president has clearly submitted us a tight budget, but it's what's called for if we're going to get spending under control and keep the economy moving in the right direction, with economic growth and job creation activity.

Fiscal discipline can turn the economy around.

Past experience with fiscal austerity at home and overseas strongly suggests that it is best for the economy's long-run performance to restrain government spending rather than raise taxes.

If we don't get a grip on government spending, there will be no growth.

It's insane to try to balance the budget.

I will work to restore fiscal responsibility to our country's budget and to provide for a more robust economy.

The first order of business is the elimination of the annual deficit.

Look at what happened in the 1990s: when they balanced the federal budget, it was through growth in the economy and controlling spending.

It is important for India to stay the course on fiscal consolidation.

In addition to reining in spending, taxes, tolls and fees, let's rein in how much the state borrows.

I think the government lost control over fiscal policy in UPA-2. But it is possible to suggest that the momentum of the populism of UPA-1 did the damage when the economy slowed down, but government spending could not.

Any move to reduce government spending is a positive for the economy.

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.

Gradual fiscal consolidation may also be stimulative in the short run.

Near-term deficits are temporary and manageable if - and only if - we keep spending in check, the tax burden low and the economy growing.

Defense spending as a share of the economy dropped significantly during the early 1990s, and that was one of the things, along with other policy changes, that put us back on the path to a balanced budget.

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

Sound public finances are the essential foundation on which to construct a better-balanced economy from the wreckage of Labour's boom and bust. But it is economic growth that will create the jobs and the prosperity for the future and enable us to pay down Labour's debt.

Look, I am not worried about Washington cutting too much spending too fast. I mean, the kinds of spending cuts we're talking about just right now are $100 billion out of a $3.7 trillion budget.

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

We have to reduce the burden placed on our economy by years of deficits and debt.

If you ask people do you think that government should spend less money than what it takes in, most people agree with that.

We agree with Simpson and Bowles and others who have looked at this. What's necessary is to stabilize the debt and then work from there. You can't balance the budget in the short term because to do that would be to ratchet down the economy.

You eventually have to figure out how to balance the books. So that's the reason I gave up my day job to come do this was to go fight to create the space where spending matches America's capacity to tax, and that means economic growth and a smaller, humbler federal government.