Ken Cuccinelli Quotes

Today it is evident that we have two political parties: the Tax and Spenders and the No-Tax and Spenders. Neither party is fiscally conservative. Is there no room at the inn for an honest conservative? A conservative who makes the case for smaller government on its merits and not just as the fallback option when fiscal bankruptcy threatens?

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

I am a small-government conservative who clings tenaciously and old-fashionedly to the idea that one ought to have balanced budgets.

The most misreported and misunderstood thing about the tea party is its political leanings. The tea party has no political leaning. It stands straight for limited government, low taxes, and liberty for all.

The Tea Party knows that continuing to delay charting a course to spending reform hurts everybody.

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

The American people are tired of the out-of-control spending, and they want Washington to get their act in order and stop spending money we don't have.

It is time we passed a balanced budget amendment and return this government to limited spending.

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.

This is what the election of 2010 was about. We didn't send conservatives to Washington to flirt with Democrat proposals for higher taxes and more debt. We sent leaders to stop them.

Our state has a balanced budget. We have to live within our means in the state of Wyoming. I was in the state senate. This country needs a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution.

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

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

I am a deficit hawk.

I stand for strict economy in governmental affairs.

Our state has a balanced budget. We have to live within our means in the state of Wyoming. I was in the state senate. This country needs a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution. We need to live within our means.

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.

The most remarkable thing about Calvin Coolidge is that he served for 67 months, and when he left office, the budget was lower than he came in. In real terms - in nominal terms with vanilla on top - he cut the budget year over year.

A Conservative government is necessary. There is no credible alternative.

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.

Like Ike [President Eisenhower] did. Talk economy and then spend away.

Washington has to stop spending money we don’t have for projects we don’t want.

Although virtually all Republicans campaign on fiscal restraint, how many actually care about it deeply?

We need a straitjacket around Congress when it comes to spending so that they are forced to do what 49 states are required to do and what every family business and every family is required to do, and that's live within their means.