Bipartisan Quote by Ann Kirkpatrick

Yes, I introduced the congressional pay cut bill, cutting our salaries by five percent. And I think we have to lead by example.

— Ann Kirkpatrick

Households and businesses cut expenses every day. Passing a financial down payment alongside the debt limit sends the right message to the public, and…

— John Sununu

I've actually cut my personal pay individually; we didn't vote on that, but I've done that individually. It's important that folks know that we're…

— Steve Stivers

I served on the budget committee in the Senate, and I remember as vividly as if it were yesterday when we had a hearing…

— Hillary Clinton

“Congress, in its typical knee-jerk reaction, had slashed their budget considerably in recent years, culminating”

— Bobby Akart

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

— Jim Flaherty

We owe more money than any Nation in the World, and we are LOWERING TAXES. When is the time to pay off a debt…

— Will Rogers

I mean, you have said before you'd cut the deficit in half. And this...I love this idea of $4 trillion in cuts. You found…

— Mitt Romney

I worked with Democrats and Republicans to cut a trillion dollars out of our discretionary domestic budget. That's the largest cut in the discretionary…

— Barack Obama

It took the first 204 years of our Nation's history to accumulate $1 trillion in debt. And now we are doing that every 2 or 3 years.

— Jim Cooper

I balanced the budget for four straight years, paid off $405 billion in debt - pretty conservative. The first entitlement reform of your lifetime…

— Newt Gingrich

Historically, the responsibility for voting on the debt limit has gone to the party in the majority.

— Jacob Lew