Gary Herbert Quotes

In my home state of Indiana, we prove every day that you can build a growing economy on balanced budgets, low taxes, even while making record investments in education and roads and health care.

Everyone knows the U.S. economy shouldn't be so reliant on consumption. More investments should be made.

Chronic deficits drastically reduce government's ability to make those infrastructure investments that business needs to grow and create jobs.

I've always thought that good politics follows from good economics and good policies.

Sound public finances are not the enemy of sustained growth - they are its precondition.

I believe that if we are able to, obviously we need to ensure that we have a robust budget that's balanced, but there's no way I would ever accept austerity.

I take very seriously our responsibility to keep a strong economy.

Let's stop bankrupting the country and start investing in our future.

Remarkably, there are leaders in Washington who don't understand why it's so important for us to have a budget.

In order to achieve optimal economic growth, Congress must adhere to sane spending guidelines while promoting smart policies devoted to growing businesses and creating jobs.

We plan to spend 20 billion lari ($12 billion) from the budget in the next four years on implementation of all tasks presented in our new programme.

More than anything else, a budget request is a statement of national priorities; a clear enumeration of what our country needs to grow its economy and remain in the future the first-rate power it is today.

I think where I differ a little bit, we absolutely have to think about the deficit looking down the road. And certainly that's something the president has said that we need to, as the economy recovers, have a plan in place for getting it down.

I have made 'start, grow and stay' a big part of my administration.

One of the big challenges for our party is to demonstrate to people that we have an agenda for economic prosperity and that we can be trusted with their money.

We're focused on doing the things that make the economy perform well, and as you do that, reduce deficits, for one, very important; secondly, keep growth rates high, very important.

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.

Without deficit reduction, we cannot have sustained economic growth.

The issue is not growth verses fiscal responsibility. We need both!

All I'll say is if you look at countries where it is - where they are rapidly growing, they're investing in their infrastructure. They're investing in their educations. They are trying to streamline regulations, but they're not neglecting key investments.

As always, it would be important to ensure that any fiscal policy changes did not compromise long-run fiscal sustainability.

We can only create good jobs if we make smarter investments in infrastructure and do more to support small businesses, not stiff them.

The Golden State has lost its luster. We've got to change our tax system and how we fund government. We're going to have to make it easier to create jobs in California, incentivize manufacturing, really put more in the way of investment in our public school system and our institutions of higher learning if we're going to stay the Golden State.

Alabama is better than to depend on gambling to fund its government.

We have to start grounding our policies in facts and recognize that a strong economy is critical for funding progressive priorities.