Fiscal responsibility quotes

We need earmark reform, and when I’m President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.

It’s time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.

I’m not really conservative. I’m conservative on certain things. I believe in less government. I believe in fiscal responsibility and all those things that maybe Republicans used to believe in but don’t any more.

Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets.