In my political career, I'd like to see a constitutional balanced budget amendment. — Ken Buck Copy Share Image
People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance. — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share Image
On Bill Clinton: I have a simple question: Who's the last President to give you a balanced budget? — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
In Wisconsin, I led the Assembly to a balanced budget in face of fierce opposition from the status quo. — Jeff Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
No one in the modern history of this country, no president, has done more to move toward a balanced budget than has… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
The insane pursuit of the holy grail of a balanced budget in the end is going to drive the economy into a… — William Vickrey Copy Share Image
Our balanced budget has an important psychological function. It is a signal that we can't continue to constantly take on debt. — Wolfgang Schauble Copy Share Image
We're for the balanced budget amendment and yet the budget we're going to introduce, that we're going to repeal Obamacare with never… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
It is time we passed a balanced budget amendment and return this government to limited spending. — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
You can't get to a balanced budget and begin to pay down debt and thus create jobs in this country if you… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
I think we have a Tea Party mandate, and that Tea Party mandate is for good-government type of things, things like term… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
We can't expect entrepreneurs and businesses large and small to take their life savings or their company's money and invest in America… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
We've not had one Republican president in 34 years balance the budget. You can't trust right-wing Republicans with your money. You ought… — Howard Dean Copy Share Image
Every tax cut I call for is targeted, it's responsible and it is paid for within my balanced budget plan. My tax… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
I balanced the budget for four straight years, paid off $405 billion in debt - pretty conservative. The first entitlement reform of… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
Defense spending as a share of the economy dropped significantly during the early 1990s, and that was one of the things, along… — Peter Orszag Copy Share Image
When you're governor, you've got to step up to the plate; you've got to make a proposal for a balanced budget. That's… — J. B. Pritzker Copy Share Image
Of course, tax revenues have ended up being substantially higher than they were at the time these dire projections were made, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Consider in Washington, around the country today we are talking about balanced budgets, paying down our national debt, getting the economy going,… — J. C. Watts Copy Share Image
I don't want to cost jobs. My priority is jobs. And so what I do is I bring down the tax rates,… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Tonight, I propose a 21st Century Crime Bill to deploy the latest technologies and tactics to make our communities even safer. Our… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Economist Frederick Thayer has studied the history of our balanced-budget crusades and has come up with some depressing statistics. We have had… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
Ron Paul would have demanded that entire departments be shuttered – not that the bums merely bring into balance what was stolen… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
Bill Clinton gives the appearance of taking stands-for some sort of tax cut, some sort of welfare reform, some sort of balanced… — Joe Klein Copy Share Image
I have long been in favor of a balanced budget restriction at the level of the federal government of the United States.… — James M. Buchanan Copy Share Image
In his 16 years in the Senate, John Kerry has fought against government waste and worked hard to bring some accountability to… — Zell Miller Copy Share Image
“These are tough times for state governments. Huge deficits loom almost everywhere, from California to New York, from New Jersey to Texas.… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
We get to a balanced budget within eight to 10 years. We do it by reducing spending in a whole series of… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
A Syriza government will respect Greece's obligation as a eurozone member to maintain a balanced budget and will commit to quantitative targets. — Alexis Tsipras Copy Share Image
States, virtually all of them, have a constitutional requirement to operate on a balanced budget. — John Kitzhaber Copy Share Image
You know, the Democrats want to balance the budget by raising spending and raising taxes. The Soviet Union had a balanced budget. — Tom DeLay Copy Share Image
Even with not having a balanced budget at this time, I support tax cuts. That will help limit spending. — Steve Chabot Copy Share Image
The American way is the way most law-abiding Americans live - in debt. Does this make a balanced budget un-American? — Cullen Hightower Copy Share Image
I think my husband did a pretty good job in the 1990s. I think a lot about what worked and how we… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
In my home state of Indiana we prove every day that you can build a growing economy on balanced budgets, low taxes. — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
Not one Republican president has balanced the budget in 34 years. You can not trust Republicans with your money. — Howard Dean Copy Share Image
