Darrell Issa Quotes

In my political career, I'd like to see a constitutional balanced budget amendment.

Remarkably, there are leaders in Washington who don't understand why it's so important for us to have a budget.

We need to focus on issues where we all agree, which is spending discipline and control and making sure that government, both in Springfield and in Washington, doesn't take more from your family budget.

Every debate in Washington is about how much to increase spending - a little or a lot.

The Tea Party knows that continuing to delay charting a course to spending reform hurts everybody.

The American people reject the idea of giving Washington a blank check to increase the debt limit.

Look, I am not worried about Washington cutting too much spending too fast. I mean, the kinds of spending cuts we're talking about just right now are $100 billion out of a $3.7 trillion budget.

In coming to the Congress as a new Member and becoming a fellow Blue Dog, we have had an opportunity to share and really spend a great deal of time in examining the challenges that our Nation finds itself in in getting its fiscal house in order.

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

When Mr. Obama entered office, he said all the right things about getting Washington spending under control. He even promised to cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term. Obviously, that didn't happen.

Every Democrat on Capitol Hill professes to be a fiscal hawk.

There is no real justification for a requirement that a budget of any sort should be balanced, except as a rallying point for those who seek to hamstring government.

Our system of keeping the federal government's books is a monument to the creativity of mankind ... We've cut government spending for 15 years in a row, and yet have spent more money in each of those years.

The Federal Government has no fiscal policy, for the tail of political expediency has long wagged the dog of prudent policy in Washington.

Congress must build on the success of the Budget Control Act.

The people of Illinois sent me to Springfield to end the era of unbalanced budgets and runaway debt.

We need more leaders in Washington who will do more with less - and that's how we engineer real change.

Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets.

But I think the global economy will understand that the United States has the ability to meet its obligations. But it's not going to be able to do it over the long term if we can't control the growth of government.

It's all right to agree or disagree on the balanced budget amendment. It's all right to talk about how we're going to appropriate.

All the states are required, either by constitution or by statute, to have balanced budgets - they're not able to print money. So they have to focus on establishing priorities.

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.

When Bill Clinton was in town, he sent over a balanced budget.

Government does not have a revenue problem; government has a spending problem. Government does not have a revenue problem; government has a priority problem. It is time that we begin to fine tune our focus and decide what the priority of government ought to be.