Ron DeSantis Quotes

But the debt limit obviously is something that needs to and will be passed. That is not inconsistent with a process and a belief that we have to get significant deficit reduction.

Most of the major increases in the debt ceiling have been accompanied by structural changes in the way we raise and spend money.

I'm not going to raise the debt ceiling.

The American people reject the idea of giving Washington a blank check to increase the debt limit.

If it took multiple debt ceiling hikes, I'd rather achieve the savings.

The only way you can raise the debt ceiling is to change the trajectory of spending - that's my personal preference. But I want the Ways and Means Committee to offer up a solution.

Look, I'm very much in favor of tax cuts, but not with borrowed money. And the problem that we've gotten into in recent years is spending programs with borrowed money, tax cuts with borrowed money, and at the end of the day that proves disastrous. And my view is I don't think we can play subtle policy here.

The debt ceiling is not something to toy with.

There are only two honest ways to reduce our debt: cut spending or raise revenues.

In addition to reining in spending, taxes, tolls and fees, let's rein in how much the state borrows.

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.

We are worried about the size of the deficit, which is why the president is pleased that the House and Senate have followed his lead in cutting the deficit in half over the next five years.

Cutting budget deficits can never be just an exercise in economics.

There is a very serious fiscal-policy question of, 'Are we running our overall fiscal policy such that we as a government can pay our bills?'

If you ask people do you think that government should spend less money than what it takes in, most people agree with that.

My opponent Senator Menendez and his colleagues are pursuing what I consider a Jon Corzine economic policy. Higher taxes, more spending, more debt.

The debt ceiling at some point has to be raised. I don't think there's anybody that questions the fact that if we ended up getting in a situation where the U.S. government was sending out IOUs like the state of California did at one point, that ends up creating quite a brand problem for our country.

Monetary discipline forces fiscal discipline on the politicians as well.

The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt.

When President Obama was in the Senate, when he was a U.S. senator, he voted against raising the debt ceiling. And he said it was a lack of leadership that had brought us to this point.

Hikes in the debt ceiling - without any political demands from the opposition party - had been routine until President Obama took office.

Taxes are forever; spending cuts are transitory.

The debt ceiling serves no useful purpose.

The first order of business is the elimination of the annual deficit.

I don't see why anybody's playing chicken with the debt ceiling.