Kevin McCarthy Quotes

I am a governor who left office with a smaller general fund budget than when we started.

We have been spending beyond our means, we are going to focus on the projects that we committed to in the election but importantly if there is additional projects or new things that come up they have to have a business case, they have to work and they can't impose financial stress on families and private individuals and businesses.

Like working families all across the state, we must find a way to make government live within its means.

Government must continue to live within its means.

What I wanted to do was see if we couldn't balance the budget.

Sequestration was not designed to be anyone's ideal method for getting our hands around government spending, and it certainly isn't mine.

It's insane to try to balance the budget.

The President has a short time to let people know that he is serious about getting spending under control.

The only way to meet the situation [the financial crisis] is spend less money and to run the City of New York within the limits of our resources. Unless you do this, gentlemen, you will have a difficult problem confronting you by the end of this year and the taxpayers of 1922 and the years thereafter will have to pay the price of our present lack of prudence or our unwillingness to economize at the proper time.

Actively search for spending bills that I can veto as a sign of … financial stewardship.

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.

We'll set our approach to borrowing, to spending, to taxation, in a sensible way on a sensible timescale.

Just like families must live within their budgets, the Federal Government must live within its means. We have passed appropriations bills that have been fiscally responsible while recognizing our national priorities.

The budget is tight, and that is exactly where we want it to be and where we need it to be.

Of course we have to address the deficit if we win.

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

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.

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

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

The number of realists who are betting that both the 'economy gets healthy soon' and this government gets spending under control is a tiny group, indeed.

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

If you don't get spending under control, eventually you're going to have a big tax increase.

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.

Monetary discipline forces fiscal discipline on the politicians as well.

There is a difficult leap between talking about balancing the budget and actually doing it.