Half of this deficit reduction is coming from spending cuts.

People who can work should work, but if they do work, their families at home shouldn't be poor.

The Government should make a bigger sacrifice than the taxpayers.

Of every $10 of deficit reduction, half of it is in spending cuts.

This is the largest program for deficit reduction in the history of the country, $500 billion.

Keep in mind that gasoline in America is the cheapest of any country in the world.

The country has been in an economic difficulty on and off for 20 years.

Nobody wants to reduce the deficit because—the reason it got so bad as it did is that there were tough decisions required to turn it around.

We have to stop borrowing so much from our future and start investing more to build it again.

I can't promise anybody that's in a tough global economy job security.

I think you're going to see a big increase in the number of steel jobs if we have flexibility and competitiveness.

I'm very encouraged and I have very positive feelings about the progress made in the conference on the budget plan.

New York will gain far more from a stable, credible deficit reduction plan than you will lose by a restriction on the entertainment deduction.

It would lead to an increase in long-term interest rates, there's no question about that.

The most important thing we could do would be to urgently pass this plan for deficit reduction.

New Jersey should do quite well from these economic incentives.

We cannot spend our way out of this crisis.

The people who put those policies forward said you ought to do that because then they will create more jobs.