Scott Garrett Quotes

Normally, when politicians talk about 'cutting the budget,' they really mean reducing the amount of increase. Actual spending goes up while the politicians claim to have 'cut the budget.'

We in Tennessee know that low taxes, less government, and less spending are the ways to grow our economy.

I’d cut down government spending and I’d move to keep down the size of government, too.

I think it's the broadest source of dissatisfaction amongst Republicans, out-of-control spending.

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

We should reduce total government spending as a percentage of the economy. The left wants to focus on the deficit so they can take us away from the focus on spending as a percentage of the economy.

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

I opposed the Medicare prescription drug entitlement. I opposed the Wall Street bailout. I opposed the stimulus bill.

Only in Washington does a decrease in the proposed increase equal a spending cut.

Reagan proved deficits don't matter.

I have a record as governor. I have a record of cutting spending. And I talked yesterday not only about we ought to cut spending, I talked about how we've cut spending in Mississippi and how if you did the same things in the federal government, you would save tens of billions of dollars a year.

In a clean break from the Obama years, and frankly from the years before this president, we will keep federal spending at 20 percent of GDP, or less. That is enough. The choice is whether to put hard limits on economic growth, or hard limits on the size of government, and we choose to limit government.

I was able to promote a strong defense budget when it could have been cut a lot more severely.

Now make no mistake, I think we need a strong dose of fiscal conservatism in Washington, D.C.

Even with not having a balanced budget at this time, I support tax cuts. That will help limit spending.

States, virtually all of them, have a constitutional requirement to operate on a balanced budget.

I am a deficit hawk.

Being a defense hawk and a budget hawk are not mutually exclusive.

Republicans went off track. We were spending too much money.

There is no real justification for a requirement that a budget of any sort should be balanced, except as a rallying point for those who seek to hamstring government.

I've been amazed at the degree to which Democrats, in particular, have expressed their enthusiasm for the president's manner with which he handled this budget.

The more we can do to address fiscal austerity, the better our markets will do, and there is a real political shift to doing that.

The best thing to hold down spending is to have a Democratic President and a Republican Congress.

I personally do not worship at the alter of a balanced budget.

If the rest of Washington ran as efficiently as this football team there wouldn't be any deficit.