Fiscal Responsibility Quotes

• When you say fiscal responsibility, it seems to me that you really mean rich people keeping their money.

  Alice Adams

  Money, Mean, Responsibility

  Alice Adams (2011). “LISTENING TO BILLIE: A Novel”, p.119, Vintage

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• Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.

  Gary Miller

  Responsibility, Waiting, Legislation

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• The American people expect more from Congress. They expect fiscal responsibility and common sense. They expect us to return to the pay-as-you-go budget rules that we had enacted in the past that helped us establish a surplus, however briefly.

  Melissa Bean

  Responsibility, Past, People

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• Spending and tax cut decisions must be both fiscally responsible and fair to our working families. I believe that fiscal responsibility is the way to create prosperity for America and secure the retirement of America's seniors.

  Blanche Lincoln

  Senior, Retirement, Believe

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• 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.

  Ron Kind

  Responsibility, America, President

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• But in Congress, accountability is just a catch phrase, usually directed elsewhere. Demands to personal responsibility or corporate accountability abound, but rarely congressional accountability or fiscal responsibility.

  Melissa Bean

  Responsibility, Accountability, Phrases

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• I will work to restore fiscal responsibility to our country's budget and to provide for a more robust economy.

  Ed Pastor

  Country, Responsibility, Economy

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• Republicans should simply focus on first principles and give the American people what they want - an honest party dedicated to common sense, fiscal responsibility and limited government. If we govern to save the country, we'll do well as a party.

  Tom Coburn

  Country, Party, Responsibility

  "For Republicans, the Moment for Reform Has Arrived" by Tom Coburn, www.realclearpolitics.com. September 24, 2010.

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• Being lectured by the president on fiscal responsibility is a little bit like Tony Soprano talking to me about law and order in this country.

  John F. Kerry

  Country, Responsibility, Order

  "Bush, Kerry debate domestic policies". The final debate between President George W. Bush and Sen. John Kerry at Arizona State University, www.cnn.com. October 14, 2004.

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• Restoring responsibility and accountability is essential to the economic and fiscal health of our nation.

  Carl Levin

  Responsibility, Aquariums, Accountability

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• I'm not really conservative. I'm conservative on certain things. I believe in less government. I believe in fiscal responsibility and all those things that maybe Republicans used to believe in but don't any more.

  Clint Eastwood

  Believe, Responsibility, Government

  "'I figured I'd retire gradually, just ride off into the sunset ...'". Interview with Philip French, www.theguardian.com. February 25, 2007.

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• Fiscal responsibility and government reform are going to be good themes for governing, well at any time, but particularly coming out of a recovery.

  Bob McDonnell

  Recovery, Responsibility, Government

  "POLITICO's interview with Bob McDonnell". Interview with Andy Barr, www.politico.com. February 7, 2011.

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• I stand for limited government, fiscal responsibility, personal freedom, personal responsibility, so the Republican Party will support me.

  Rick Scott

  Party, Responsibility, Government

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• This election presents a stark choice - we can continue down the road of the Obama Democrats, more and more spending, debt and government control of the economy, or we can return to the founding principles of our nation - free markets, fiscal responsibility and individual liberty.

  Ted Cruz

  Responsibility, Government, Choices

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• The core of America is not racist. It is not hostile to women. It is increasingly offended by gay bashing. Yet it abhors government waste. It believes strongly in fiscal responsibility such as balanced budgets. It is pro-economic growth. It is concerned about the environment. It is intolerant of people on welfare who disdain the notion of work. But it wants poor kids to have school lunches and it wants to spend money to have good schools. In sum, most Americans are sensible, good-hearted, and prudent. The issue, then, is whether there is a political party that can welcome them home.

  Paul Tsongas

  Party, Believe, Home

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• After a decade of profligacy, the American people are tired of politicians who talk the talk but don't walk the walk when it comes to fiscal responsibility. It's easy to get up in front of the cameras and rant against exploding deficits. What's hard is actually getting deficits under control. But that's what we must do. Like families across the country, we have to take responsibility for every dollar we spend.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Tired, Responsibility

  "Obama hails return to PAYGO" by Josh Gerstein, www.politico.com. February 13, 2010.

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• Each one [movie] is very important to us and from a fiscal responsibility, filmmakers understand that it's highly personal for us and they've been great about it.

  Thomas Tull

  Responsibility, Important, Filmmaker

  Source: collider.com

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• Thanks to the leadership of Vice President Gore, we have a government for the Information Age, once again a government that is a progressive instrument of the common good, rooted in our oldest values of opportunity, responsibility and community, devoted to fiscal responsibility, determined to give our people the tools they need to make the most of their own lives in the 21st century, a 21st century government for 21st century America.

  William J. Clinton

  Responsibility, Opportunity, America

  Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1999”, p.62, Best Books on

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• Tim Kaine has a message of fiscal responsibility and generosity of spirit. That kind of message can sell anywhere.

  Barack Obama

  Responsibility, Generosity, Messages

  "Vetting Obama's 'man'" by Christina Bellantoni, www.washingtontimes.com. August 3, 2008.

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• There is a Party of fiscal responsibility... economic responsibility... social responsibility... civic responsibility... personal responsibility... and moral responsibility. That party is the Democratic Party.

  Howard Dean

  Party, Responsibility, Moral

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

  Ann Kirkpatrick

  Responsibility, Relentless, Congress

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• I represent what I think is a traditional Republican... a limited government, fiscal responsibility, strong national defense, individual freedom and liberty.

  Olympia Snowe

  Strong, Responsibility, Thinking

  "Frustrated Senator Olympia Snowe Gives Obama an ‘F’" by Jonathan Karl, Richard Coolidge and Sherisse Pham, www.yahoo.com. March 27, 2012.

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• Certainly the Republican Party changed and I never changed, as I became an independent my values never changed whether it's on fiscal responsibility, environment or using government tools to help the less fortunate.

  Lincoln Chafee

  Party, Independent, Responsibility

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• The lack of fiscal responsibility is one of the main reasons I finally left my old Party.

  Lincoln Chafee

  Party, Responsibility, Reason

  Lincoln Chafee's speech at the Democratic National Convention, www.politico.com. September 5, 2012.

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