Jean-Claude Juncker Quotes

The economy cannot be run in an institutional, juridical, or political vacuum: the state has its role to play, guaranteeing personal freedom, a stable currency, and efficient public services

Not in the constitution, but I would propose a law to the French parliament that provides for reducing the budget deficit year by year, until we have reached a balanced budget by 2017.

If we are to maintain our position as a global economic leader, we've got to end the govern-by-crisis mentality that sets us back instead of moving us forward.

In Congress, I was a relentless advocate for fiscal responsibility.

Fiscal responsibility and government reform are going to be good themes for governing, well at any time, but particularly coming out of a recovery.

It's time for the sensible center to rise up and push for a rational approach to our fiscal challenges.

Europe is trying to get its fiscal house in order.

Restoring responsibility and accountability is essential to the economic and fiscal health of our nation.

My Republican colleagues say, Let's do the cuts first. The Democrats say, Let's do spending first. I'd like to do both simultaneously.

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

Austerity is not part of the European treaties; democracy and the principle of popular sovereignty are.

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

Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.

In fighting the debt crisis, E.U. countries have enhanced co-operation and carried out reform with tremendous courage. This is laudable.

But the debt limit obviously is something that needs to and will be passed. That is not inconsistent with a process and a belief that we have to get significant deficit reduction.

I think achieving a higher fiscal stability is also a very important condition for restoring an environment which is conducive to growth.

I think it's absolutely clear that the fiscal path we are on is not sustainable, and for me, the best analogy is these deficits are like a cancer, and over time they will destroy the country from within.

In the area of macroeconomic policies, I think we'll see more centralization, like in the budgetary sphere.

I sum up the prospects for 1967 in three short sentences. We are back on course. The ship is picking up speed. The economy is moving. Every seaman knows the command at such a moment: 'steady as she goes'.

Every day things get better because politicians are addressing the fiscal challenges more aggressively.

It is better to implement reforms in times of economic strength.

We are one government. The Federal Reserve is not the foreign enemy.

Without deficit reduction, we cannot have sustained economic growth.

Without the general taxes there can be no unity, and without unity, no concentration, and without this no economies can be implemented … the country is lost.

The American economy is like a huge aircraft carrier. It doen't turn fast. That's why you can't judge a new president by what happens in his early months.