Top 185 Fiscal Quotes

We combine fiscal responsibility with social responsibility.
Fernando Haddad
I'm honored to have the endorsement of FreedomWorks. I

I’m honored to have the endorsement of FreedomWorks. I look forward to earning the individual support of the grassroots conservatives who make up the heart and soul of this organization that has done so much to promote freedom and pro-growth fiscal policies.
Adam Hasner
Restoring and maintaining a great nation’s fiscal health will require not just sound arguments and an engaged public but something more. It will require an electoral system that encourages our representatives to place the long-term interests of the public ahead of parochial special interests.
Alan K. Simpson
There are libertarian conservatives, fiscal conservatives, and social conservatives. I feel conservative in terms of limited government, individual responsibility, self-sufficiency – that sort of thing.
Ted Olson
I think the best thing we can do is sell that idea of smaller government – of fiscal responsibility vs. the Obama record. Obama made promises, and on every promise in which he’s actually delivered, things have gotten worse instead of better. He said if we get ObamaCare it’ll help, but health care prices went up.
Richard Mourdock
We did the two-year extension of Bush tax cuts in 2010. We negotiated the Budget Control Act in August of 2011 and the fiscal cliff deal at the end of 2012, which saved 99 percent of Americans from a tax increase.
Mitch McConnell
I know the exploding cost of health care is at the root of our long-term fiscal challenges.
Fred Upton
What I would like to vote for is a candidate that is socially liberal, a fiscal conservative, broadly libertarian with a small ‘l’ but sensible and pragmatic and with a chance of winning. That’s more or less the empty set.
Tyler Cowen
I am conservative with a small ‘c.’ It’s possible to be conservative in fiscal policy, and tolerant on moral issues or questions of freedom of expression.
Mick Jagger
I don’t want a Europe that is just a free-trade area attached to NATO. Even less do I want a Europe where it’s everyone against everyone, and social and fiscal dumping replaces solidarity.
Segolene Royal
We have created a ministry of the family to work on fertility, nurseries, on a fiscal system which takes large families into account.
Matteo Salvini
The American people know what’s necessary to get this economy moving again. It’s fiscal discipline in Washington, D.C. and across-the-board tax relief for working families, small businesses and family farms.
Mike Pence
Republicans must stop putting tax increases on the fiscal cliff negotiating table and start demanding that Democrats put forth serious proposals to reduce spending.
John Fleming
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.
James Surowiecki
I think the government lost control over fiscal policy in UPA-2. But it is possible to suggest that the momentum of the populism of UPA-1 did the damage when the economy slowed down, but government spending could not.
Sanjaya Baru
Governments cannot assume or expect that the ECB will always facilitate their funding independently of the achievement of their fiscal and other policy objectives.
Lucas Papademos
Fiscal decentralisation does not lead to higher economic growth because economic growth is much more driven by factors other than taxes and spending, e.g. increases in technological progress and improved human capital.
Lars Feld
This Budget reflects a choice – not an easy choice, but the right choice. And when you think about it, the only choice. The choice to take the responsible, prudent path to fiscal stability, economic growth and opportunity.
George Pataki
Fiscal policy will need to manage trade-offs between supporting demand, protecting social spending, and ensuring that public debt remains on a sustainable path, with the optimal mix depending on country-specific circumstances.
Gita Gopinath
If the fiscal cliff occurs, I don’t think the Federal Reserve has the tools to offset that event.
Ben Bernanke
I love being a worship leader, but because I’m also a record company owner, a publishing company owner and a brand developer, I have an economic and a fiscal responsibility as well.
Israel Houghton
Europe is trying to get its fiscal house in order.
Jack Lew
Californians are blessed with the remarkable leadership of Gov. Jerry Brown, who… has led our state to firm fiscal footing and brought us to the enviable position of dreaming – and achieving – big dreams again.
Gavin Newsom
The country is facing a fiscal crisis, and the United States Senate is at the center of the debate about how to bring federal spending under control.
Jeff Flake
The fiscal crisis faced by the states especially in the light of the pandemic could lead to serious problems between the Centre and states going forward unless some Constitutional remedy is found.
Amarinder Singh
Some people call themselves fiscal conservatives; my wife says I’m just cheap.
Derek Kilmer
Fiscal crises often turn into financial crises, dealing a blow to the real economy.
Lee Myung-bak
This program that the Republican majority has taken us toward as a country is leading us to fiscal bankruptcy.
Chaka Fattah
Monetary policy has less room to maneuver when interest rates are close to zero, while expansionary fiscal policy is likely both more effective and less costly in terms of increased debt burden when interest rates are pinned at low levels.
Ben Bernanke
I was fortunate, I guess, to be part of some good fiscal discipline in the Bush administration. The budget I put forward was a balanced budget.
Rob Portman
The process of going on ‘Drag Race’ is, in my opinion, more than a fiscal investment. It’s cultural. It’s the ‘Game of Thrones’ of reality TV.
Bob the Drag Queen