Money Quote by Paul Ryan

We need to stop spending money we don't have.

— Paul Ryan

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

It's a shame that we have to use whatever leverage we have in Congress to get the president to deal with the biggest problem…

— Mitch McConnell

When it comes to federal spending, George W. Bush is the boy who cant say no. In each of his three years at the…

— Tony Snow

The President sends us a billion-page paper that shows how he would spend the money if he were spending the money. He doesn't have…

— Michael Enzi

The president has immense powers, but he cannot spend money unless we, the people's representatives in Congress, have agreed that he can.

— Tom Malinowski

The President has a short time to let people know that he is serious about getting spending under control.

— Paul Weyrich

In America ... who is to stop congress from spending too much money. They will not stop themselves, that is certain. Everybody has to…

— Gertrude Stein

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

As the leader of the Republicans what I'm telling that we elected the president to be president. It's time for him to step up…

— Mitch McConnell

We need to be honest with the American people about the problems and the challenges ahead and the solutions that are needed to fix…

— Paul Ryan

If we do not halt this steady process of building commissions and regulatory bodies and the special legislation like huge inverted pyramids over every…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt