Brian Sandoval Quotes

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

If you're opposed to the budget I submitted to the General Assembly, you're for a tax increase.

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

A long term tax cut is not a tax cut at all unless it is accompanied by a spending cut.

How does one leave Social Security and Medicare untouched, grow defense by more than $50 billion, slash taxes, launch a $1 trillion infrastructure program - and not explode the deficit and national debt?

There's no reason to raise taxes. Taxes should be lower... The problem we have is that government spends too much, not that taxes are too low.

Should we freeze or postpone prospective tax cuts and avoid any new tax cuts until we are sure we have the money to pay for the war on terrorism and the war in Iraq.

Higher taxes is the road to ruin. We must and we will shrink our government, and that means making some tough choices, tightening our belts.

Past experience with fiscal austerity at home and overseas strongly suggests that it is best for the economy's long-run performance to restrain government spending rather than raise taxes.

People question me all the time about my experience. They question my experience in politics, and the first thing I always tell them is yes, I have no experience raising taxes over and over. I have no experience increasing the debt in a state.

The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.

The problem is government spends too much. So raising taxes is what politicians do, instead of reducing spending.

We can't have deficit spending in Texas. You have to balance your budget every two years.

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.

While the deficit and debt are serious problems, I oppose solving these problems by raising taxes.

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

If you could bring to me a majority of people to say that we're going to have $10 of spending cuts for $1 of revenue enhancement, put me in, coach.

Monetary discipline forces fiscal discipline on the politicians as well.

You eventually have to figure out how to balance the books. So that's the reason I gave up my day job to come do this was to go fight to create the space where spending matches America's capacity to tax, and that means economic growth and a smaller, humbler federal government.

I want the government to pinch pennies for a change instead of American families.

I believe that in order to sustain a governing majority, the Democratic Party has got to learn that it can govern without raising taxes.

I believe very firmly that we can get to balanced budgets without raising taxes and without cutting transfers to the provinces or to individuals.

Government needs to get out of the way, focus more on affordability, manage taxes properly so we get the services we expect.

I think America is strong enough to fix the problems, grace and honor to D.C. I think energy independence and control spending. We have to go to a balanced budget. Quite frankly, as far as our debt goes, I don't think you can tax your way out of it. I think people are taxed enough.

You can't have it both ways. You can't tell me that you're taxed enough already, and that you want constitutional government and then in the next breath say, 'Bring me home some bacon.' The pig has been picked clean.