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If we weren't running deficits, if we weren't spending more than we were taking in, there would be no reason whatsoever to increase the debt ceiling.

The only way you can raise the debt ceiling is to change the trajectory of spending - that's my personal preference. But I want the Ways and Means Committee to offer up a solution.

I think at the end of the day we have to raise the debt ceiling, because America pays its bills.

I can tell you if you look at the polls, Democrats, Republicans, Independents, they do not think we should increase the debt limit.

It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to collapse.

I would vote to increase the debt limit if there was a corresponding level of cuts. And if there was some serious talk about a balanced budget amendment, which we as governors always had to deal with.

I would vote against raising the national debt ceiling. Again, this is about mortgaging the future of unborn generations of Americans. It's a form of taxation without representation. I don't think we can do that.

Get rid of debt now.

Make this the year you tackle that credit card debt once and for all.

Raising the debt ceiling is not additional spending. It is simply saying, you, the United States of America, can continue to borrow the money you need to pay the bills you have already rung up.