Top 495 Fiscal Quotes & Sayings

In Congress, I was a relentless advocate for fiscal responsibility.

I don't understand how the Republican party is the party with the reputation for fiscal conservatism and fiscal sanity, when they're the ones who run up the debt. It was Reagan who ran up the debt and now Bush is doing it again, and in between, Clinton and Bush's father, I must say, worked so hard to get that deficit and that debt down.

The administration's reckless plan doesn't do one thing to ensure the long term security of social security, rather it undermines our economy. We need a budget and a fiscal policy that reflects the values and interests of America and restores fiscal discipline.

Fiscal prudence is very important.

Too many members of Congress are too involved in grabbing what they can for their states or districts without enough emphasis on overall fiscal restraint for the sake of the nation as a whole. We need a new era of fiscal sanity. I am not willing to subject my children and grandchildren to the level of debt that Congress has created.

We want to send a clear message that the Mexican government won't endanger its fiscal position, and we will remain on a path of fiscal responsibility.

There needs to be fiscal common sense.

There is a very serious fiscal-policy question of, 'Are we running our overall fiscal policy such that we as a government can pay our bills?'

All schoolchildren are hostages to red tape and fiscal insufficiency.

Union members are fiscal conservatives, a lot of them.

We can't continue to kick the can when it comes to the fiscal state of this country.

As the President reviewed the state of the union and unveiled his second-term agenda, he fell short of adequately explaining how he intends to set America back on the course of fiscal responsibility and secure the fiscal health of the nation.

Fiscal discipline can turn the economy around.

Only when we have economic growth can we push through fiscal reform.

It's the usual Socialist fiscal math of 1 + 1 = You're paying, so who cares.

I like Mitch Daniels on the fiscal conservative issues. You disagree with him on this idea that social issues, you takeoff the table. I do that for two reasons. I think the fiscal issues in a sense are a symptom of a lot of the deeper cultural issues in America. I don't think they are as disconnected as he thinks.

It is important for India to stay the course on fiscal consolidation.

Caution, not exuberance, should be our fiscal motto.

As a fiscal conservative, I think that our government should pay for itself.

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.

Congress must demonstrate fiscal responsibility.

Gradual fiscal consolidation may also be stimulative in the short run.

As a fiscal conservative, I believe one of the most important roles the federal government can play in assuring that our economy remains strong is to keep our fiscal house in order.

Our debt is out of control. What was a fiscal challenge is now a fiscal crisis. We cannot deny it; instead we must, as Americans, confront it responsibly. And that is exactly what Republicans pledge to do.

Japan has introduced fiscal stimulus five times in the past seven or eight years and each time it's been a failure and that's not a surprise. Fiscal stimulus is not stimulating in and of itself.

As always, it would be important to ensure that any fiscal policy changes did not compromise long-run fiscal sustainability.

Let's push the Pentagon off the fiscal cliff.

If we operate with a belief in long sweeps of time, we build cathedrals; if we operate from fiscal quarter to fiscal quarter, we build ugly shopping malls.

At the federal level, the fiscal stimulus of 2008 and 2009 supported economic output, but the effects of that stimulus faded; by 2011, federal fiscal policy actions became a drag on output growth when the recovery was still weak.

Everyone must be in the same competitive situation, including on the fiscal level.

A wide range of possible fiscal policy tools and approaches could enhance the cyclical stability of the economy. For example, steps could be taken to increase the effectiveness of the automatic stabilizers, and some economists have proposed that greater fiscal support could be usefully provided to state and local governments during recessions.

I think there are only two things you should really expect Congress to do.One is to pass a short-term funding bill, because it's not in their political interest to shut down the government when the fiscal year comes into effect, the new fiscal year, on October 1. The second thing, I think, is Zika funding. This has been put off and off for months and months.

I'm a right-wing fiscal conservative and a social liberal.

I am a fiscal conservative.

Pennsylvania is facing challenging economic times, a multi-billion dollar budget deficit, and negative cash flow projections. My Budget Deficit and Fiscal Stabilization Task Force will get to work to determine the scope of the challenges facing Pennsylvania and begin to discuss how we can get Pennsylvania's fiscal house in order.

At the heart of every major political upheaval lies a fiscal revolution.

There will be fiscal issues that are appropriate to discuss.

I'm a fiscal conservative. That's how I define myself.

Every Democrat on Capitol Hill professes to be a fiscal hawk.

My reputation is as a fiscal hawk. At least, I hope that it is.

More generally, I strongly believe in the importance of fiscal responsibility.

My dream is universal income, with a completely different fiscal system to finance it.

We are committed to achieving the fiscal deficit target announced in the budget.

I'm a fiscal hawk. I vote against all taxes, but I do believe the environment, and climate change, is a bigger issue than fiscal deficits are as a risk to the nation.

Where fiscal space is low, fiscal policy needs to adjust in a growth-friendly manner to ensure public debt is on a sustainable path, while protecting the most vulnerable.

"Moderate" Republicans such as Arnold Schwarzenegger like to boast that they're fiscal conservatives and social liberals. But the social liberalism always ends up burying the fiscal conservatism.

Basically, I'm a fiscal conservative.

Our first fiscal year, we were profitable.

Abenomics, quantitative easing, fiscal policy - we know all the issues.

The clearest way to cut some of this fiscal drag would be to extend the current payroll tax holiday and increase it - as proposed by President Barack Obama. This would cut the fiscal drag by almost half.

I'm still a fiscal conservative, and I'm inclined to pay down debt.

We have major fiscal problems on our hand.

America's fiscal future is frightening.

If you have an area where high-income receivers concentrate, you have a higher fiscal capacity. That fiscal capacity is a valuable resource and will create rent-seeking. People will trying to get that resource one way or the other, including immigration. It is very much like the medieval peasants putting their sheep on the commons pasture. It is better than the open range, and if you let them have open access they will, in fact, put too many sheep on the pasture and waste the value that the pasture has.

I think there is a shared sense of urgency in Washington on fiscal issues.

In the past, proactive fiscal polices almost always meant just more investment and an increase in the fiscal deficit.

Popular as Keynesian fiscal policy may be, many economists are skeptical that it works. They argue that fine-tuning the economy is a virtually impossible task, and that fiscal-stimulus programs are usually too small, and arrive too late, to make a difference.

What I am is a principled conservative individual who believes in fiscal responsibility.

One of the things I think is very likely is that with the prospects of robust fiscal stimulus in response to voters mad as hell, the Fed is going to be in there with helicopter money. In other words, they're going to be buying whatever the Treasury issues. They're not going to, in effect, advocate strong fiscal stimulus and then not finance it. And that's helicopter money.

Europe is trying to get its fiscal house in order.