Committed Quote by Chris Christie

We have to cut spending. We're - the thing is out of control.

— Tim Pawlenty

We've got to take some drastic steps in this country. We can't keep spending and spending.

— Johnny Van Zant

We must take away the government's credit card. With limits on both tax revenue and borrowing, the Federal government would finally be forced to…

— Alan Keyes

Regardless of my legislation, spending has to be stopped.

— Gary Johnson

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

— Steve Chabot

We could curtail private spending by several trillion dollars a year without requiring painful sacrifices from anyone. That would be more than enough to…

— Robert H. Frank

The way to balance the budget is for Congress to cut Social Security, move the retirement age to 70, cut defense, Medicare and veterans…

— Howard Dean

My point is cutting spending shouldn't be reliant on the debt limit though. It's something we have to do. The good news for America…

— David Plouffe

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

You've got to either say you're going to cut taxes and find some spending cuts. I think we ought to reform long-term entitlement spending…

— Anonymous

I want to reduce America's deficit by cutting spending that we don't need but also by asking the wealthy to do a little bit…

— Barack Obama

This is a matter of Congress authorizes spending. They order me to spend.

— Barack Obama