Fiscal Responsibility Act Quotes

What matters to me is that I do what I think is right and I see, I'm a numbers guy, that's my attitude. I know we have a debt tsunami coming, we are bankrupting this country and I'm in a position where I can actually advance ideas to prevent that from happening. That's exactly what I should be doing.

Raising the debt limit on some levels is a ministerial act. It doesn't involve any new spending.

The Gillard government must give up its addiction to wasteful spending borrowing and taxing.

Congress must demonstrate fiscal responsibility.

I'm for a balanced budget now.

I am an austere president.

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

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

I think we should balance the federal budget tomorrow. I'm optimistic. I think Americans are optimistic. We went to the moon; we can balance the federal budget.

The American people know that we cannot spend our way to prosperity.

The Citizen's Petition reflects Vermont's spirit of pragmatism and across-the-board cooperation. I applaud the 'Campaign to Fix the Debt' for calling attention to one of the country's most pressing problems, our ballooning national debt, and for urging policymakers to find practical solutions.

I am a deficit hawk.

But the debt limit obviously is something that needs to and will be passed. That is not inconsistent with a process and a belief that we have to get significant deficit reduction.

In my view, the biggest challenge facing this country is that we are not living within our means. Spending cuts can only get us halfway there.

The American people are tired of the out-of-control spending, and they want Washington to get their act in order and stop spending money we don't have.

While President Obama shirks his responsibility to advance solutions to our fiscal challenges, he can no longer hide from the merciless math of the balance sheet. Conservatives have made certain of that.

You have to separate what needs to be done to avoid the fiscal cliff and what needs to be done longer range. It's a mistake to essentially collapse those two - they're not the same. I don't think you can achieve everything at once.

If you force legislators to balance, at the end of the day, if it has to be balanced, then they step up and they become legislators and can find out where to cut.

If we can't have the courage to tell our constituents, hey, we've got to cut back, then if we can point to something and say, I would like to vote for more benefits for you, but this balanced budget amendment or statutory spending cap or whatever the device is, is preventing me from doing it.

It's time to stop spending money we don't have and balance the budget.

Mr. Obama's choices show how fundamentally unserious he is about deficit reduction and spending restraint.

Like Ike [President Eisenhower] did. Talk economy and then spend away.

My job is to rectify the public finances and hand the country back to the people so they can really have a future, and that is what I will do.

We are the ones that are trying to get Washington spending under control so it can live within its means.

Well, first of all, let's go right to it. We're going to balance the budget. We should live within our own means, and we should read the bills and work with the American people.