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We can't let government make long-term commitments that it may not be able to keep.

We need to stop kicking the can down the road and rethink our entire tax system toward long-term, comprehensive tax reform.

We've got to take some drastic steps in this country. We can't keep spending and spending.

We can't continue to tax, borrow, and spend at the rates that we are, and it's just got to be stopped.

We can not continue to allow this over reliance on government to replace the cornerstone institution that has made the American experience possible.

I cannot allow state government to continue to be consumed by this game of political 'gotcha.'

We have major fiscal problems on our hand.

Government cannot and must not replace private initiative.

The need to change our country's fiscal trajectory, including reforming entitlement programs, is an unassailable reality that will define our time.

We should have a very limited federal government.