Harry Hopkins Quotes

The people of Montana understand that you will never be able to take enough money from them and give it to the government to quench that thirst. The government will always spend more money.

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

People don’t want Washington to grow faster than their ability to pay for it.

You can't have it both ways. You can't tell me that you're taxed enough already, and that you want constitutional government and then in the next breath say, 'Bring me home some bacon.' The pig has been picked clean.

It is day after day in this institution, borrow money, run up the debt, run up the deficits and then with a straight face say, we are going to repeal a tax that affects 1 percent of the American people, just 1 percent of the American people.

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.

People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income.

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

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

As a fiscal conservative, I think that our government should pay for itself.

Many of the Western democracies - including the U.S. - have a problem that voters want benefits they don't want to pay for.

Italy has piled up huge public debt because the successive governments were too close to the life of ordinary citizens, too willing to please the requests of everybody, thereby acting against the interests of future generations.

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

What people want is big government that they don't have to pay for.

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

In the case of the Democrats' 2009 budget request, the statement of need could not have been articulated any clearer: We need more spending, historic new tax hikes, and greater control over the way American families live their lives.

Taxes are forever; spending cuts are transitory.

A public debt is a public curse and in a representative government greater than any other.

Who can pretend that commercial imposts are, or would be, alone equal to the present and future exigencies of the Union?

Hillary - at the end of the day, isn't that going to be about bigger government? Isn't that going to be about more taxes?

It is human nature that when you see something work well, you do more of it. If, in its ceaseless quest for revenue, government sees a seemingly harmless method of raising funds without causing much inflation, it will grab on to it.

Washington does not tax too little: it spends way too much.

In addition to reining in spending, taxes, tolls and fees, let's rein in how much the state borrows.

We can't continue to tax, borrow, and spend at the rates that we are, and it's just got to be stopped.

Because of fiscal responsibility, we will keep taxes low and maintain important priorities like IPERS.