John Cornyn Quotes

Our state has a balanced budget. We have to live within our means in the state of Wyoming. I was in the state senate. This country needs a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution.

Our state has a balanced budget. We have to live within our means in the state of Wyoming. I was in the state senate. This country needs a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution. We need to live within our means.

It is time we passed a balanced budget amendment and return this government to limited spending.

Washington has to stop spending money we don’t have for projects we don’t want.

I do think a focus on fiscal restraint is a central element of the Tea Party, and thank goodness for it!

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

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.

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

I will always vote what I have promised, and always vote the Constitution, as well as I will not vote for one single penny that isn't paid for, because debt is the monster, debt is what's going to eat us up and that is why our economy is on the brink.

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.

The American people know that we cannot spend our way to prosperity.

Make no mistake: I will work with both Democrats and Republicans to cut wasteful spending and reduce our debt in a balanced, responsible way.

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.

You got to have a courageous president to stand up and says, listen, if - if you send a bill to me that spends more money than what we've coming in, I'll veto it. I mean, I'm going to try to work with you the best I can, but I'm going to veto it.

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

As American families and businesses have been forced to tighten their belts, Washington has refused to do the same.

In a clean break from the Obama years, and frankly from the years before this president, we will keep federal spending at 20 percent of GDP, or less. That is enough. The choice is whether to put hard limits on economic growth, or hard limits on the size of government, and we choose to limit government.

I was able to promote a strong defense budget when it could have been cut a lot more severely.

We can't have deficit spending in Texas. You have to balance your budget every two years.

Even with not having a balanced budget at this time, I support tax cuts. That will help limit spending.

States, virtually all of them, have a constitutional requirement to operate on a balanced budget.

I am a deficit hawk.

Tony Blair and Gordon Brown committed to John Major's spending envelopes in 1997. No-one said that Tony Blair and John Major were identical. This happens quite often that parties actually, despite all the sound and fury, agree on the overall need to make sure that we live within our means as a country.

I stand for strict economy in governmental affairs.