Acceptable Quote by Grover Norquist

We should reduce total government spending as a percentage of the economy.

— Grover Norquist

President Obama has offered a plan with 4 trillion dollars in debt reduction over a decade, with two and a half dollars of spending…

— William J. Clinton

Government is taking 40 percent of the GDP. And that's at the state, local and federal level. President Obama has taken government spending at…

— Mitt Romney

We should reduce total government spending as a percentage of the economy. The left wants to focus on the deficit so they can take…

— Grover Norquist

In a clean break from the Obama years, and frankly from the years before this president, we will keep federal spending at 20 percent…

— Paul Ryan

To reduce deficit spending and our enormous debt, you reign in spending. You cut the budget. You don't take more from the private sector…

— Sarah Palin

The only way to reduce our national debt is to grow the economy and cut spending. We have no idea how our money is…

— Carly Fiorina

The first thing we have to do is get spending under control in Washington. It's completely out of control. We Republicans came to power…

— John McCain

It's a shame that the president doesn't embrace the effort to reduce spending. None of us like using situations like the sequester or the…

— Mitch McConnell

The right way to deal with a budget problem that was years in the making is by formulating a credible plan to reduce the…

— Christina Romer

Mr. Obama plans to boost federal spending 25 percent while nearly tripling the national debt over 10 years. Americans know that this kind of…

— Karl Rove

My approach to cutting spending as president, is to do a ten percent across the board cut of all federal agencies, and then ask…

— Herman Cain