Fiscal policy Quote by Franklin D. Roosevelt

The liberal fiscal spending of the 2004-08 period was made possible both by rising government revenues and national income growth and by relative comfort…

— Sanjaya Baru

Liberalism is exhausted because it has become a corruption.

— Shelby Steele

At the heart of every major political upheaval lies a fiscal revolution.

— Thomas Piketty

We have major fiscal problems on our hand.

— Chaka Fattah

When done right - or wrong, depending on how you look at it - deficits remove liberal options from the table. Suddenly there's no…

— Thomas Frank

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

— Thomas Jefferson

Government failure is always used as an excuse for government expansion. Government thrives on crisis and incompetence.

— Jim Babka

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government has grown out of too much government.

— John Sharp Williams

Unprincipled governments are inevitably unstable, unsuccessful and short-lived.

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

In crude Marxist terms, liberals have a theory of infallible government that is constantly at war with the reality of life.

— Jonah Goldberg

The liberal agenda is the blueprint for national ruin.

— James Cook

Governments usually end not with a bang but with a whimper, as the Conservatives learned in the 1990s. Support and authority erodes over time…

— John McDonnell