Bunch Quote by Mick Mulvaney

If I was in Congress, I would not vote to raise the debt ceiling.

— Sean Hannity

The amount of money coming into Washington is not a factor when the Democrats start spending it. Witness Obama. National debt doubled in eight…

— Rush Limbaugh

I believed the only thing that could turn around this government spending and mounting debt would be if the people rose up.

— Jim DeMint

When you don't have as much debt as we do, we don't have to worry about having this debt ceiling fight every single year.…

— Katie Pavlich

There was no avoiding the fact that we were going to hit our debt ceiling.

— Bill Johnson

After the $700 billion bailout, the trillion-dollar stimulus, and the massive budget bill with over 9,000 earmarks, many of you implored Washington to please…

— Michele Bachmann

The debt they ran up in the first year of the Obama administration is bigger than the last four years of the Bush combined.

— Mitch McConnell

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

If we weren't running deficits, if we weren't spending more than we were taking in, there would be no reason whatsoever to increase the…

— Ron Johnson

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

If it took multiple debt ceiling hikes, I'd rather achieve the savings.

— Bob Corker

If we hit the debt ceiling, that's... essentially defaulting on our obligations, which is totally unprecedented in American history. The impact on the economy…

— Austan Goolsbee