Frank Luntz Quotes

I'm still a fiscal conservative, and I'm inclined to pay down debt.

The American people, in their own families, they understand that you have to do that. You have to make the tough decisions. You have to get your budget. You have got to put it in order. And they expect their elected officials and their leaders to do likewise.

It's a bit ridiculous to have people who have two years of experience handling an $83 billion budget.

The President is not squaring with the American people as to the seriousness of our nation's fiscal condition. It is time for people to stand up and tell the truth.

The President must stop gambling with taxpayers' money and get the country back on the path of fiscal sanity.

Money should not, and must not, change our commitment to solving problems and building this state.

I mean, the fact of the matter is, Ohio 's coming back because we set a clear path, we cut taxes, we balanced our budget, we got credit upgrades when the whole rest of the world, including America, was being downgraded.

This time, instead of moving oceans and healing planets, let's get our bills in order and pay down the debt so we control our own future.

Trying to balance the budget through defense cuts is both counterproductive and impossible.

Getting the budget balanced, regulatory reform, tax reform - I think these lead to economic growth.

I'm a fiscal conservative. That's how I define myself.

If we could manage our own finances the way the Congress does the nation's, we'd all be living in high cotton and eating high on the hog.

Has anyone stopped to consider that we might come closer to balancing the budget if all of us simply tried to live up to the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule?

If the Nation is living within its income, its credit is good. If, in some crises, it lives beyond its income for a year or two, it can usually borrow temporarily at reasonable rates. But if, like a spendthrift, it throws discretion to the winds, and is willing to make no sacrifice at all in spending; if it extends its taxing to the limit of the peoples power to pay and continues to pile up deficits, then it is on the road to bankruptcy.

If one regards inflation as an evil, then one has to stop inflating. One has to balance the budget of the government.

When the Republican Party is no longer the party of fiscal conservatism then clearly I would argue that we've lost our way.

What you call austerity is what I might call efficiency.

Our liberality should not exceed our ability.

Our balanced budget has an important psychological function. It is a signal that we can't continue to constantly take on debt.

The budget should be balanced not by more taxes, but by reduction of follies.

Don't liberal Democrats ever learn economic principles, or does their class warfare trump all else?

We act in a pragmatic and careful manner. We reduce spending on budget items that do not constitute a priority.

The ingenious slogan that the public debt does not matter because 'we owe it to ourselves' is clearly absurd.

Either we pay the government's bills, or we leave them for our kids to pay. It's that simple.

I think, any politician, you have to hold them to their word. And conservatives run on fiscal conservatism. .