Administration Quote by Thomas Frank

Look at what happened in the 1990s: when they balanced the federal budget, it was through growth in the economy and controlling spending.

— Steve Scalise

The fact is that a lot of the spending increases came during the Bush administration. Two unpaid for wars we got ourselves engaged in.…

— Nancy Pelosi

“When America began, government cost every citizen $20 (in [2003] money) per year. Taxes rose during wars, but for most of the life of…

— John Stossel

After almost 50 years in which federal spending averaged about 20 percent of GDP, Joe Sestak and Nancy Pelosi took federal spending to 25…

— Pat Toomey

“From the founding of the Republic to 1929, spending by governments at all levels, federal, state, and local, never exceeded 12 percent of the…

— Milton Friedman

After 2003, we lowered taxes across the board. And by 2004, revenue to the federal government grew. In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan cut taxes…

— Pat Toomey

The federal government is far larger than the Founding Fathers ever intended it to be. We have racked up over $16 trillion of debt…

— Matt Salmon

President Obama has shelled out more in federal spending than the five presidents that came before him.

— Elizabeth Flock

I continue to vote against such spending increases, but sometimes I think some of my Republican colleagues forgot that we were sent here to…

— Jeff Miller

“And every year the Pentagon bite of the federal dollar got bigger and bigger. In Reagan’s eight years in office, military expenditure doubled from…

— Rachel Maddow

The level of taxation is driven by spending. Less spending leads to lower taxes.

— Gregory D Hess

Mr. Trump's fiscal policies have produced more growth than Mr. Obama's because they were designed to incentivize businesses to invest, hire, and produce more…

— Stephen Moore