Fiscal Quotes

You're talking about a real problem facing this country at the very moment when we're expecting something like 70 to 80 million baby boomers to retire and to add additional costs to Social Security and Medicare. We're headed towards a fiscal cliff. - Leon Panetta

You're in a situation where you're stuck, because no government wants to go out there and say, 'we're in dire fiscal straits, we've got to increase taxes'. - David Watt

You're a fiscal conservative until you get hit with a natural disaster. - Trent Lott

You know, when companies who have made a commitment and have legacy costs and all of a sudden want to walk away from that commitment and lay it on the federal government, that's a problem. It's a fiscal problem for us. - Dennis Hastert

You know, we have a fiscal train wreck before us. And unless we act, and act deliberately, we're not going to enable our kids to have what we have. It's plain and simple as that. - Eric Cantor

You have to make sure that your fiscally responsible and that you follow along with the guidelines that are put in place. This is what the auditor general has said in numerous reports, and I just hope your learning your lesson here. - Robert Ghiz

You have to be fiscally prudent and do all the things you need to do to run the company the right way. You can't write back home for a check. - Vikram Mehta

You have 'fiscal Republicans' who see this differently from the social conservatives... You have a gleeful media and gleeful Democrats who have found a wedge issue and are trying to exploit it. Here we are, sitting in the conservative Midwest, and I can't get this through the legislature. It's an intriguing, baffling political situation. - Matt Bartle

You can't claim to be a fiscal conservative and support the profligate spending and corporate welfare in this bill... twelve hundred page monstrosity chock full of special interest giveaways. - John McCain

You can only imagine that they could end up spending an incremental billion to billion and a half [dollars] in the next fiscal year launching new products. - Brendan Barnicle