Campbell Newman Quotes

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

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

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

If you don't get spending under control, eventually you're going to have a big tax increase.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Like working families all across the state, we must find a way to make government live within its means.

My goal was to do the best job I could in governing the state of Wisconsin, in some cases making very tough decisions to have to bring our spending in line with the resources we had at the state level.

It's insane to try to balance the budget.

Monetary discipline forces fiscal discipline on the politicians as well.

I'm not a detail guy. I depend on accountants and administrators to do my detail stuff for me, but I do know the overall picture and I know that if you put business people together in a room, not just politicians, they could shrink the deficit tremendously by good business tactics.

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.

We're failing when it comes to controlling spending.

The President has a short time to let people know that he is serious about getting spending under control.

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

We need to focus on issues where we all agree, which is spending discipline and control and making sure that government, both in Springfield and in Washington, doesn't take more from your family budget.

We need a straitjacket around Congress when it comes to spending so that they are forced to do what 49 states are required to do and what every family business and every family is required to do, and that's live within their means.

We can't do everything with a budget, but we can put the country on much sounder financial footing.

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