Theresa May Quotes

While deficits are often inflationary and always pernicious, curing them by raising taxes is equivalent to curing an illness by shooting the patient.

The biggest source of getting the country to a balanced budget is not by raising taxes or by cutting spending. It's by encouraging the growth of the economy.

Well obviously the economy is critical to everything we do and we need to get the economy back in shape, the deficit down, the debt paid off, so that the economy can grow again and grow properly.

America knows it has got to deal with its deficit problems so that it, too, can promise it is making its proper and best contributions to the world economy.

There is not a country on earth that could get its fiscal house in order by shrinking opportunity and depressing growth.

The three main political parties all agree the UK deficit is high and needs to be brought down. All agree that it is easier to get a deficit down if you have faster growth, cutting unemployment-related costs and raising revenues.

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 deficit reduction program is a growing economy.

The UK downgrade will come as little surprise to many. It does not appear to be occurring because the UK is cutting its deficit too far and too fast.

We want a strong, vibrant economy for Britain so that we can set out a clear and affordable alternative programme for government.

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

I think Republicans really need to be disciplined, to stay focused on sustained economic growth.

Instead of focusing on growing jobs and reigniting our economy, President Obama focused on growing government and tried to remake the United States into the image of the debt-laden countries of Europe. His approach has been more spending, more regulation, and higher taxes.

If we increase spending, we have got to raise taxes or any combination.

The caricature of what George Osborne is doing on the fiscal side is absurd. If you read some of the commentary, particularly from the left, you would think he was turning the clock back to the 1930s.

Tax increases slow economic growth. Why would you raise taxes? We need to reform spending, the tens of trillions of unfunded liabilities can never be funded by tax increases, that can only be fixed by reducing spending.

We cannot collect enough taxes to catch up with spending. Do I know a solution? Not really. Do your politicians know a solution? Does our commander-in-chief offer a solution? Absolutely not.

Raising taxes in an economic downturn is not a good idea.

We have a spending problem, not a taxing problem. The less we spend, the more jobs we have the potential to create.

We cannot cut our way to prosperity.

It is better to implement reforms in times of economic strength.

It is essential to reduce taxes on employment and wealth creation in order to enhance our economy's competitiveness. But I don't think it's sensible today to write a Conservative budget … with specific pledges on tax reduction.

A dynamic economy, with more citizens working and paying taxes, will be our strongest tool to bring down budget deficits

Fiscal discipline can turn the economy around.

I want to end austerity.