John Boehner Quotes

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

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

If we increase spending, we have got to raise taxes or any combination.

Governments harangue about deficits to get more revenue so they can spend more.

Taxes are forever; spending cuts are transitory.

it would be nice to have low taxes, but we have to pay our bills in this country.

The biggest source of getting the country to a balanced budget is not by raising taxes or by cutting spending. It's by encouraging the growth of the economy.

There's no reason to raise taxes. Taxes should be lower... The problem we have is that government spends too much, not that taxes are too low.

I'm not going to raise taxes; I'm not going to have a wage increase for public employees.

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.

Government is just spending too much money.

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

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

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

We all know what the problems are: it's tax and spend. One party will tax and spend, the other party won't tax but will spend. It's both of them together.

The problem is government spends too much. So raising taxes is what politicians do, instead of reducing spending.

Look, I'm very much in favor of tax cuts, but not with borrowed money. And the problem that we've gotten into in recent years is spending programs with borrowed money, tax cuts with borrowed money, and at the end of the day that proves disastrous. And my view is I don't think we can play subtle policy here.

The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.

If you raise taxes, it won't reduce the deficit. The other team will simply spend the resources.

If you could bring to me a majority of people to say that we're going to have $10 of spending cuts for $1 of revenue enhancement, put me in, coach.

Most of the major increases in the debt ceiling have been accompanied by structural changes in the way we raise and spend money.

My biggest objection to raising taxes is that it feeds the government addiction to spending money.

... with a cash machine like an income tax, the state legislature will go wild and go on a spending spree.

There's a lot of evidence you can sell people on tax increases if they think its an investment.

It is important that any long term tax reduction or spending initiative be phased in.