budget control Quotes

When our most important issue is the debt that we're piling on our children and grandchildren, I think it's pretty helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate who has actually managed billions of dollars and knows how to cut billions of dollars.

A budget is simply telling your money where to go instead of wondering where it went.

In order to truly get deficit spending and federal debt under control, the Trump administration is going to have to eventually address entitlement reform. If not, Trump will not only become part of the Washington status quo on the issue, but will leave burdensome and expensive problems for future generations.

How do you hold down government spending?

The only way you can raise the debt ceiling is to change the trajectory of spending - that's my personal preference. But I want the Ways and Means Committee to offer up a solution.

When you're the president of the United States, you have no money unless the Congress says, 'Here's what you can spend it on.'

We've got to take some drastic steps in this country. We can't keep spending and spending.

We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.

It is necessary to watch people in Washington all the time to keep them from unnecessary expenditure of money.

We're failing when it comes to controlling spending.

Washington doesn't have just a spending problem, or just an entitlement problem, or just a taxing problem. We have a leadership problem. Fix that, and the first three problems are solved.

It is past time for Republican leadership to answer for record deficits and reckless spending, both in Iraq and in the U.S. It's time for a plan to bring our troops home.

When you're the president of the United States and you know that the biggest issue facing you is this cliff that we're about ready to head over if we don't get this spending and debt situation under control, it's very irresponsible not to take the action that is necessary to fix the problem.

Reduction in taxes will be justified only as we can show we can succeed in bringing the budget under control.... Until we can determine the extent to which expenditures can be reduced, it would not be wise to reduce our revenues.

A tax cut would most certainly be my first choice rather than an increase in federal spending. Those who advocate that fail to see that spending not only continues in subsequent years, but it grows and grows.

[T]ax cuts are not just something that all taxpayers deserve, but also the best way to curb government spending. It is the best kind of tax reform. If the money never reaches the table, Congress can't gobble it up.

There's a stability and growth pact which was agreed for the eleven countries which tries to limit the size of budget deficits among the eleven countries.

Those who make the most and loudest speeches about deficit reduction are least likely to vote against spending.

We, in a sense, are taking back Uncle Sam's checkbook.

One thing that Washington D.C. does not do well is cut spending.

The 9/11 Commission strongly recommends that the National Intelligence Director be fully in control of the budget, from developing it to implementing it, to ensuring that the National Intelligence Director has the clout to make decisions.

The closest thing you ever get to a cut is a decrease in the rate of increase of government spending.

If it took multiple debt ceiling hikes, I'd rather achieve the savings.

Under no circumstances will I allow expenditures upon works not clearly national.

We don't have a revenue problem in Annapolis. We have a spending problem we need to control.