Neal Boortz Quotes

As families and small businesses alike are tightening their belts to account for the worsening economy, they have every right to ask: 'Why isn't my government doing the same?'

One of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government.

Now, 'the fiscal cliff' is a name that the media came up with, but some of us have been saying for years, 'You have got to stop the out of control federal spending, or you will end up at this point.' We're there.

Government is just spending too much money.

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

When businesses face tough times, one of the first items they cut is overhead expenses. The government should do the same.

I believed the only thing that could turn around this government spending and mounting debt would be if the people rose up.

Funding for sports (and the arts) are often the first things facing the chop in difficult times.

We're going to have to control the spending of government.

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

Let's push the Pentagon off the fiscal cliff.

I do not intend to dispute in any way the need for defence cuts and the need for government spending cuts in general. I do not share a not in my backyard approach to government spending reductions.

Families and businesses are tightening their belts to make ends meet - and Washington should too.

My slogan when I ran was that there is no such thing as government money, there is only taxpayer's money, and that cut pretty deep.

Economy is demanded in every branch of the government at all times, but especially in periods like the present, of depression in business and distress among the people. The severest economy must be observed in all public expenditures, and extravagance stopped wherever it is found, and prevented wherever in the future it may be developed. If the revenues are to remain as now, the only relief that can come must be from decreased expenditures. But the present must not become the permanent condition of the government.

This deficit that we have threatens our very way of life, and everything needs to be on the table.

If we could manage our own finances the way the Congress does the nation's, we'd all be living in high cotton and eating high on the hog.

Coolidge thought budgets were virtuous. He had his econ straight. He didn't just cut taxes, he also cut the budget.

Today we care about budgets more than anything. Our American future hangs on the ability of government to cut budget.

The government and its chiefs do not have the powers of the mythical Santa Claus. They cannot spend except by taking out of the pockets of some people for the benefit of others.

I regard reduction in Federal spending as one of the most important issues in this campaign. In my opinion it is the most direct and effective contribution that Government can make to business.

Every time they have tried to cut appropriations, they get a wakeup call.

Democrats have always wanted to grow government with revenues from our society's producers. They aren't sincere about reducing the deficit, because they will not abandon their addiction to spending other people's money.

If people won't spend any money, the government has this moral obligation to do it.

Before we give the government any more money, show us some receipts.