Able Quote by Marco Rubio

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 would vote to increase the debt limit if there was a corresponding level of cuts. And if there was some serious talk about…

— Jon Huntsman, Jr

I can tell you if you look at the polls, Democrats, Republicans, Independents, they do not think we should increase the debt limit.

— Jim DeMint

I think at the end of the day we have to raise the debt ceiling, because America pays its bills.

— Terri Sewell

We do not have a debt crisis right now, but we see it coming. We know it's irrefutably happening. And the point we're trying…

— Paul Ryan

Now we are raising the debt limit 3 times, up to $8 trillion, so that our children and our grandchildren will have to pay…

— Chaka Fattah

When you talk about raising that debt limit, the only way that I would ever support raising the debt limit if we also talk…

— Allen West

Well, first of all, let's go right to it. We're going to balance the budget. We should live within our own means, and we…

— Jeff Sessions

The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem…

— Barack Obama

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

We should balance the budget. If government programs are important enough, we need to pay for them with taxes or make cuts in lesser…

— Robert J. Samuelson

The biggest change we have to tackle that's out there is that we're digging the hole deeper and deeper and spending is totally out…

— Jon Runyan