Mitt Romney Quotes

Instead of focusing on growing jobs and reigniting our economy, President Obama focused on growing government and tried to remake the United States into the image of the debt-laden countries of Europe. His approach has been more spending, more regulation, and higher taxes.

First of all, I don't like to speak about austerity. I'd prefer to speak of fiscal discipline. Fiscal discipline, in the end, amounts to austerity if it is not accompanied by other policies.

As long as we're focused on spending, there are only two ways to do that: One is spend less, and Democrats have no solutions for that. Or we have pro-growth policies that make the economy grow so the dead-weight cost of government becomes a smaller percentage of the economy and therefore less expensive.

I think growing an economy is a good way to help with a deficit, but ultimately, it's about fiscal discipline and responsible spending - and smart decisions.

We are worried about the size of the deficit, which is why the president is pleased that the House and Senate have followed his lead in cutting the deficit in half over the next five years.

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

Will I obliterate national debt? Sure, why not?

In order to spur economic growth we need to put the brakes on out of control spending, lower Ohioans tax burden and create a most efficient and effective government.

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

The deficit - the U.S. knows our deficit is too large. We are committed to bringing it down. We are bringing it down. The deficit came in for fiscal year '05 at considerably below where it was the prior year.

Our first priority has to be getting our fiscal house in order - and creating an atmosphere for the private sector in job creation.

My opponent Senator Menendez and his colleagues are pursuing what I consider a Jon Corzine economic policy. Higher taxes, more spending, more debt.

Tax increases slow economic growth. Why would you raise taxes? We need to reform spending, the tens of trillions of unfunded liabilities can never be funded by tax increases, that can only be fixed by reducing spending.

There is not a country on earth that could get its fiscal house in order by shrinking opportunity and depressing growth.

You eventually have to figure out how to balance the books. So that's the reason I gave up my day job to come do this was to go fight to create the space where spending matches America's capacity to tax, and that means economic growth and a smaller, humbler federal government.

We're focused on doing the things that make the economy perform well, and as you do that, reduce deficits, for one, very important; secondly, keep growth rates high, very important.

The more we can do to address fiscal austerity, the better our markets will do, and there is a real political shift to doing that.

I personally don't believe we ought to be raising taxes or cutting spending, either one, until we get this economy off the ground. I'll pay more, but it won't solve the problem.

Look at what happened in the 1990s: when they balanced the federal budget, it was through growth in the economy and controlling spending.

We still have a major problem in debt with America that we have to find efficiencies in government to get us back to a balanced budget.

The single greatest force for deficit reduction is a growing economy.

Getting the budget balanced, regulatory reform, tax reform - I think these lead to economic growth.

Fiscal policy is a very important part of the tool kit for policy makers.

The polls are with us on this. They say the American people, more than anything, want to see spending cuts rather than tax increases.

I think to balance the budget, probably every federal department has to take cuts in my opinion.