I am a fiscal conservative.

- Ed Rendell

Every day things get better because politicians are addressing the fiscal challenges more aggressively.

- Meredith Whitney

First of all, I don't like to speak about austerity. I'd prefer to speak of fiscal discipline. Fiscal discipline, in the end, amounts to austerity if it is not accompanied by other policies.

- Mario Monti

Caution, not exuberance, should be our fiscal motto.

- John Chafee

I think there is a shared sense of urgency in Washington on fiscal issues.

- Jacob Lew

The deficit - the U.S. knows our deficit is too large. We are committed to bringing it down. We are bringing it down. The deficit came in for fiscal year '05 at considerably below where it was the prior year.

- John W. Snow

I'm still a fiscal conservative, and I'm inclined to pay down debt.

- Jim Flaherty

Congress must demonstrate fiscal responsibility.

- Jeff Fortenberry

Gradual fiscal consolidation may also be stimulative in the short run.

- Glenn Hubbard

Everyone must be in the same competitive situation, including on the fiscal level.

- Francois Hollande

In Congress, I was a relentless advocate for fiscal responsibility.

- Ann Kirkpatrick

As a fiscal conservative, I think that our government should pay for itself.

- Daniel Keys Moran

But if they want to really think about the fiscal future of this country, then think about how we have moved from hundreds of billions of surpluses to hundreds of billions of deficits.

- Chaka Fattah

We have major fiscal problems on our hand.

- Chaka Fattah

This program that the Republican majority has taken us toward as a country is leading us to fiscal bankruptcy.

- Chaka Fattah

There needs to be fiscal common sense.

- Chuck Fleischmann

Let's push the Pentagon off the fiscal cliff.

- Cindy Sheehan

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

Fiscal policy is not just, or even not even principally, the purview of the president.

- Carly Fiorina

Every Democrat on Capitol Hill professes to be a fiscal hawk.

- Bob Beauprez