Paul Broun Quotes

Can there be a more lamentable picture than that of a Chancellor of the Exchequer seated on an empty chest by a pool of bottomless deficiency fishing for a budget?

We're on the verge of a financial collapse unless we balance the budget, and that means some really, really tough decisions.

The need to change our country's fiscal trajectory, including reforming entitlement programs, is an unassailable reality that will define our time.

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

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

When you're the president of the United States and you know that the biggest issue facing you is this cliff that we're about ready to head over if we don't get this spending and debt situation under control, it's very irresponsible not to take the action that is necessary to fix the problem.

Our debt is out of control. What was a fiscal challenge is now a fiscal crisis. We cannot deny it; instead we must, as Americans, confront it responsibly. And that is exactly what Republicans pledge to do.

I am going to give the American people a huge helping of unbridled truth: that we can't continue to spend what we are spending, that we can't avoid entitlement reform because we are afraid of third rail politics.

I'd love to see lower spending levels, and in absence of lower spending levels, I'd love to see us reallocate where some of that spending is and really address the entitlements that continue growing.

The most important area for spending restraint is entitlement reform.

Ultimately, we can't just keep doubling our national debt every eight years. We have got to get that under control and not spend more than we bring in.

If Congress adds 5 percent to the debt, then their pay should be cut by 5 percent.

We've got to take some drastic steps in this country. We can't keep spending and spending.

Actually, as president of the Conference of Mayors, we passed the Simpson-Bowles plan as a template, as a template, as a frame work for moving forward and the president has done the same.

Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury.

The Obama administration's large and sustained increases in debt raise the specter of another financial crisis and large future tax increases, further chilling business investment and job creation.

The insane pursuit of the holy grail of a balanced budget in the end is going to drive the economy into a depression.

In Michigan, a liberal democrat raised taxes and kept their government programs at the same level. And guess what? Their economy continued into the toilet, it continued down.

Fiscal discipline is a priority in Romania, and we have already proven we are committed and able to make real progress in this area.

We are worried about the size of the deficit, which is why the president is pleased that the House and Senate have followed his lead in cutting the deficit in half over the next five years.

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

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.

The country is facing a fiscal crisis, and the United States Senate is at the center of the debate about how to bring federal spending under control.

Restore, without delay, the equilibrium between revenue and expenditures, which has done so much to destroy our credit and derange the whole fabric of government. If that should not be done, the government and country will be involved, ere long, in overwhelming difficulties.

It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to collapse.