The national budget is not a safe-deposit box. It is a spray can.
It is necessary to watch people in Washington all the time to keep them from unnecessary expenditure of money.
Congress must demonstrate fiscal responsibility.
I won't support any budget, whether it's a Republican or a Democrat budget, that doesn't lead to balance.
I look forward to being a voice of reason in fighting for transparent and accountable budgets.
I know there's a great deal that Arnold Schwarzenegger could teach me about making movies. There's a great deal I could teach him about the fiscal reforms that are needed - desperately needed - to set California back in good order.
We don't have a revenue problem in Annapolis. We have a spending problem we need to control.
We are absolutely going to have to provide fiscal security to people; in other words, we are going to have to show the country and the world that the country can live within its means.
New Zealand as a whole needs to save more, spend less and reduce our reliance on foreign debt.
Both candidates for president talk about balancing the budget ten years from now. Even if they win, they won't be in office then.
Yes, it is long past time we get serious about tackling the nation's ever-growing deficits. But the average American family drawn into serious debt cannot just threaten to stiff its creditors. It must cut its spending in the future, but also take responsibility for the debt incurred in the past.
If you were starting from scratch to invent an instrument that could impose fiscal discipline, the last one on earth you would come up with is the United States government.
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.
I'm very conscious that I have to, as Premier of this state, make sure we spend taxpayers' money wisely.
We in Scotland need fiscal responsibility. Quite simply, we need to be responsible for what we raise in tax and what we spend in tax.
I always believed that you can make challenging films, but they should be fiscally responsible.
I'm one of the top 2 or 3 or 4 most conservative members in the House of Representatives when it comes to economics.
I have long been in favor of a balanced budget restriction at the level of the federal government of the United States. Because the federal government has money-creating powers it can, in fact, be very damaging if it runs a series of budget deficits. With the state government in the United States, they don't have money-creating powers. The automatic discipline imposed by the fact that they are in a common monetary unit and don't have control over the money power means that the balanced budget restriction is less needed.
I would like to see this group in this Congress be starting the process to get ourselves on long term fiscal strong footing.
We have to have structural entitlement reform, major spending cuts and not tax increase-retardants on economic growth to reverse our current course toward national bankruptcy, but Obama steadfastly remains on the wrong side of all these solutions.
In Congress, I was a relentless advocate for fiscal responsibility.
You could make a case for job creation or education, police on the street, but none of those things can happen unless we got our financial house in order.
Growth in any individual European country has to be the result of policies for growth pursued in that country consistent with budgetary discipline.
Irresponsibility breeds irresponsibility. The finances of government are so central. You'd think that would be pretty obvious.
I'm pleased that I've balanced budgets. I was on the world of business for 25 years. If you didn't balance your budget, you went out of business. I went into the Olympics that was out of balance, and we got it on balance, and made a success there. I had the chance to be governor of a state. Four years in a row, Democrats and Republicans came together to balance the budget. We cut taxes 19 times and balanced our budget.
