We are absolutely going to have to provide fiscal security to people; in other words, we are going to have to show the country and the world that the country can live within its means.
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We're going to have to control the spending of government.
What we do want to see is reforms that are going to have a permanent effect on the budget deficit.
I will work to restore fiscal responsibility to our country's budget and to provide for a more robust economy.
We have major fiscal problems on our hand.
Without a doubt, first thing we should do is clean up our fiscal house, and that starts with balancing our budgets and digging out of this red ink. We cannot expect to continue in this fashion and remain the leader of the free world.
Having your fiscal house in order and having a more manageable macro-economic future is going to be very useful in creating growth.
Well, first of all, let's go right to it. We're going to balance the budget. We should live within our own means, and we should read the bills and work with the American people.
We need to resist the temptation to create more entitlements and more entitlements, which is one of the reasons we are heading recklessly toward fiscal crisis.
The more we can do to address fiscal austerity, the better our markets will do, and there is a real political shift to doing that.
The great thing about fiscal policy is that it has a direct impact and doesn't require you to bind the hands of future policymakers.