National debt Quote by Mitt Romney

It is perhaps my greatest hope, Mr. President, that some day we'll consider tax and spending measures with no one else in mind but…

— John McCain

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

We certainly could have voted on making the middle-class tax cuts and tax cuts for working families permanent had the Republicans not insisted that…

— Debbie Wasserman Schultz

One of the cruellest things of all is to have a huge deficit in this country, meaning that everyone's children will be expected to…

— Grant Shapps

Our debt is out of control. What was a fiscal challenge is now a fiscal crisis. We cannot deny it; instead we must, as…

— Paul Ryan

I don't want to remember 2005 as a year that the government heaped unnecessary burdens upon American families. Stealing from the poor and middle…

— Marty Meehan

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

The American people want a balanced budget. They want Congress to stop this barbaric practice of perpetual deficit spending. It really, if you think…

— Mike Lee

Congress had the opportunity to extend tax relief to working families without increasing the deficit. Instead, we were handed a bill that favors the…

— Rick Larsen

For one thing, one of the wonderful things that we now have is instead of the huge budget surpluses that President Clinton left us…

— Geraldine Ferraro

We were promised we could keep our healthcare plans. We were promised that Obamacare would not raise middle class taxes. Instead, the law brought…

— Ronna McDaniel

So when folks talk about the deficit and leaving the deficit for our children, we will never get out of debt had this country…

— Debbie Stabenow