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Congress must demonstrate fiscal responsibility.
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We combine fiscal responsibility with social responsibility.
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In Congress, I was a relentless advocate for fiscal responsibility.
Ann Kirkpatrick / United States Representative
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More generally, I strongly believe in the importance of fiscal responsibility.
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What I am is a principled conservative individual who believes in fiscal responsibility.
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The lack of fiscal responsibility is one of the main reasons I finally left my old Party.
Lincoln Chafee / American Politician
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My friend Paul Ryan talks about fiscal responsibility, but voted to put two wars on a credit card.
Steny Hoyer / U.s. Representative
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Because of fiscal responsibility, we will keep taxes low and maintain important priorities like IPERS.
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I will work to restore fiscal responsibility to our country's budget and to provide for a more robust economy.
Ed Pastor / United States Representative
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There's no reason why fiscal responsibility is a Democrat or a Republican point of view. It ought to be all of our points of view.
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The Democratic Party is on the move across the country. Voters are responding to our message of progress and fiscal responsibility.
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My grandfather was a popular senator, known as an advocate for fiscal responsibility, including the line-item veto for the president.
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We in Scotland need fiscal responsibility. Quite simply, we need to be responsible for what we raise in tax and what we spend in tax.
Tom Hunter /
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I stand for limited government, fiscal responsibility, personal freedom, personal responsibility, so the Republican Party will support me.
Rick Scott / Governor Of Florida
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Being lectured by the president on fiscal responsibility is a little bit like Tony Soprano talking to me about law and order in this country.
John F. Kerry / United States Secretary Of State
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With its record spending and deficits, the Obama administration has shown little interest in taking fiscal responsibility. That is a mistake.
Cathy Mcmorris Rodgers / U.s. Representative
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Fiscal responsibility and government reform are going to be good themes for governing, well at any time, but particularly coming out of a recovery.
Bob Mcdonnell / Former Governor Of Virginia
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One of the greatest falsehoods of American politics over the past several decades is that the Republican party is the party of fiscal responsibility.
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We want to send a clear message that the Mexican government won't endanger its fiscal position, and we will remain on a path of fiscal responsibility.
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Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.
Gary Miller / U.s. Representative
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Now fiscal responsibility is generally a good thing, and so a centrism mindlessly focused on tweaking legislation away from deficit spending has its uses.
Ross Douthat / Author
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I represent what I think is a traditional Republican... a limited government, fiscal responsibility, strong national defense, individual freedom and liberty.
Olympia Snowe / Former United States Senator
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During his campaign, Donald J. Trump embraced the cause of fiscal responsibility and accused President Barack Obama of shackling the country with a 'mountain of debt.'
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If we're going to win this battle over fiscal responsibility, we need more of the people who vote right and fewer of those whose seniority is their only selling point.
Jason Chaffetz / U.s. Representative
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I think it is really important when we're talking about fiscal responsibility that we are balancing the budget in ways that really benefit the working people and Americans.
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I love being a worship leader, but because I'm also a record company owner, a publishing company owner and a brand developer, I have an economic and a fiscal responsibility as well.
Israel Houghton / Musical Artist
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Because of my upbringing, I believe in things like limited government, fiscal responsibility and personal accountability. I believe in the wisdom of our founders and the sanctity of our Constitution.
John Thune / United States Senator
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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.
Clint Eastwood / Actor
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The Republican Party is either going to return to the party of fiscal responsibility and consistent conservative principles as it was under Ronald Reagan, or it will continue down the path of 'sporadic moderation.'
Todd Tiahrt / Former U.s. Representative
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But in this Congress, accountability is just a catch phrase, usually directed elsewhere. Demands to personal responsibility or corporate accountability abound, but rarely congressional accountability or fiscal responsibility.
Melissa Bean / U.s. Representative
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Spending and tax cut decisions must be both fiscally responsible and fair to our working families. I believe that fiscal responsibility is the way to create prosperity for America and secure the retirement of America's seniors.
Blanche Lincoln / Former U.s. Senator
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There are two important things to remember about 'entitlements': They are hugely popular programs for a very good reason, and actual sensible 'reform' would mean improving them, not sacrificing them at the altar of 'fiscal responsibility.'
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As the President reviewed the state of the union and unveiled his second-term agenda, he fell short of adequately explaining how he intends to set America back on the course of fiscal responsibility and secure the fiscal health of the nation.
Ron Kind / U.s. Representative
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The American people expect more from Congress. They expect fiscal responsibility and common sense. They expect us to return to the pay-as-you-go budget rules that we had enacted in the past that helped us establish a surplus, however briefly.
Melissa Bean / U.s. Representative
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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 in Congress. We've got to find a way to do it without that. And I'm confident that we can.
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Republicans should simply focus on first principles and give the American people what they want - an honest party dedicated to common sense, fiscal responsibility and limited government. If we govern to save the country, we'll do well as a party.
Tom Coburn / United States Senator
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Stemming the tide of special interest campaign cash - and restoring fiscal responsibility in Congress - is no easy task. But there is one place where concerned citizens in both parties can begin: Changing the source of money that funds all campaigns.
Alan K. Simpson / American Politician
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I served three terms in the U.S. Senate and was co-chairman of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform in 2010. So I know a bit about how Washington operates, and I have had plenty of experience doing the work of running for office.
Alan K. Simpson / American Politician
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I see the demographics increasing, and by that I mean the notion of social acceptance is growing, not decreasing; I think the notion of fiscal responsibility is growing, not decreasing. And Republicans seem to be moving further away from those two categories than closer.
Gary Johnson / Former Governor Of New Mexico
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President Obama has ignored or dismissed proposals that would address our anti-competitive tax code and unsustainable trajectory of federal debt - including his own bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform - and submitted no plan for entitlement reform.
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This election presents a stark choice - we can continue down the road of the Obama Democrats, more and more spending, debt and government control of the economy, or we can return to the founding principles of our nation - free markets, fiscal responsibility and individual liberty.
Ted Cruz / United States Senator
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I think the best thing we can do is sell that idea of smaller government - of fiscal responsibility vs. the Obama record. Obama made promises, and on every promise in which he's actually delivered, things have gotten worse instead of better. He said if we get ObamaCare it'll help, but health care prices went up.
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History speaks pretty clearly that the markets do better with Democrats. Republicans' ideas of what constitutes fiscal responsibility simply are not good for the stock market. Democrats have many tendencies, but one of them is to look after the workers, and actually that tends to be good for demand and good for markets.
Jeremy Grantham / Investor
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