National debt Quote by Thomas Jefferson

I am for a government rigorously frugal & simple, applying all the possible savings of the public revenue to the discharge of the national…

— Thomas Jefferson

My task as a citizen is to get the government to do more good and less inefficient and wasteful work.

— Tony Campolo

I am going to be a voice for restoring fiscal sanity in our country by spending hard-earned taxpayer money responsibly and responsively.

— Katie Britt

I am for lowering taxes.

— Sarah Steelman

I am a fiscal conservative.

— Ed Rendell

I'm for eliminating deductions and taking some of the money to buy down rates and put it on the debt. That's not raising taxes.…

— Lindsey Graham

I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it…

— George Bernard Shaw

I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national…

— Andrew Johnson

When I came to Congress, I campaigned for fiscal responsibility. And the earmarking problem and crisis caused a great erosion in the public's confidence…

— Chuck Fleischmann

Who's going to do a better job of spending your money? You or the government?

— Kathy Szeliga

A genuine approach to budget cutting - knowing exactly what you're cutting and why, and with what real-life consequences - is beyond my competence,…

— George Packer

My slogan when I ran was that there is no such thing as government money, there is only taxpayer's money, and that cut pretty…

— William Weld