Fiscal Security Quotes

I'm the treasurer of the state of Ohio, where, when the United States credit rating was downgraded for the first time in American history, and 14 government funds around the country were downgraded, we earned the highest rating we could earn on our $4 billion investment fund.

This time, instead of moving oceans and healing planets, let's get our bills in order and pay down the debt so we control our own future.

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.

We need, in effect, to make the phantom 'lock-boxes' around the trust fund real.

My conviction of the necessity of further legislative provisions for the safe-keeping and disbursement of the public moneys and my opinion in regard to the measures best adapted to the accomplishment of those objects have been already submitted to you.

National sovereignty should be supported by financial independence. The only power that will propel us to this goal is the economy. No matter how mighty they are, political and military victories cannot endure unless they are crowned by economic triumphs.

An independent Scotland could afford pensions full stop - after all, it is our taxes and national insurance contributions that fund them now.

Social Security has been effective for 70 years; prior predictions of its demise have been totally overstated.

More than anything else, a budget request is a statement of national priorities; a clear enumeration of what our country needs to grow its economy and remain in the future the first-rate power it is today.

It is important for Oncor to remain financially strong.

The safest course for public officials is simply to throw all of the money in a sack.

You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money.

The only color of freedom in America is green.

I feel very strongly we need to do a better job with the rainy day fund.

I wasn't terribly short of money. I just decided I didn't ever want to worry where my next dollar was coming from. I'm not anti-American. I wave the flag as much as anybody else.

You don't set up an implicit promise from the federal government that everybody is getting bailed out.

I would hope that we could have this in an adult fashion and stop demagogueing the issue anytime you talk about any substantive reforms that will actually save social security and save Medicare and save the system from imploding on itself.

With the permanent elimination of this tax, farmers and business owners will have the sense of security they need to plan for the financial future of their business or farm and their family.

Let us not forget that we have two governmental reserve funds: the Reserve Fund and the National Wellbeing Fund that represent together $100 billion.

I'm not sure it's the stimulus money that will necessarily allow the economy to recover. It will help to fortify our budgets, frankly, to ensure that there isn't as much backsliding in the areas of education and healthcare, for example.