Ronald Reagan Quotes

Coolidge thought budgets were virtuous. He had his econ straight. He didn't just cut taxes, he also cut the budget.

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.

We have to deal with two issues. Spending and taxes.

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

Most Americans want their government to be smaller, not larger; they want their taxes to be lower, not higher.

You know, even people who talk about cutting spending and they go 'That's not the spending that I was actually talking about that you're supposed to be cutting.' Well, we have to be looking across the board.

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.

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.

I am for anyone that will give me lower taxes, stop all this stupid spending. Whoever promises me that gets this chicken's vote.

I have a record as governor. I have a record of cutting spending. And I talked yesterday not only about we ought to cut spending, I talked about how we've cut spending in Mississippi and how if you did the same things in the federal government, you would save tens of billions of dollars a year.

Sequestration was not designed to be anyone's ideal method for getting our hands around government spending, and it certainly isn't mine.

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

I stand for strict economy in governmental affairs.

We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government.

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

It is a fundamental rule with me not to vote for a loan or tax bill till I am satisfied it is necessary for the public service, and then not if the deficiency can be avoided by lopping off unnecessary objects of expenditure or the enforcement of an exact and judicious economy in the public disbursements.

Coolidge believed that government officials who tell themselves that spending benefits the economy delude themselves and the citizens. Government budgets promote human freedom.

Our system of keeping the federal government's books is a monument to the creativity of mankind ... We've cut government spending for 15 years in a row, and yet have spent more money in each of those years.

It is no part of my job as Chancellor of the Exchequer to put before the House of Commons proposals for the expenditure of public money. The function of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, as I understand it, is to resist all demands for expenditure made by his colleagues and, when he can no longer resist, to limit the concession to the barest point of acceptance.

The Conservative Party is a tax cutting party or it is nothing.

What would be better is to discipline our lawmakers in Sacramento so that they do not spend more money than they have.

I’d cut down government spending and I’d move to keep down the size of government, too.

The best scheme of finance is, to spend as little as possible; and the best tax is always the lightest.

I am a governor who left office with a smaller general fund budget than when we started.

Congress must demonstrate fiscal responsibility.