No one in the modern history of this country, no…

Defense spending as a share of the economy dropped significantly during the early 1990s, and that was one of the things, along with other…

— Peter Orszag

I was the chairman of the House Budget Committee and one of the chief architects the last time we balanced a budget, and it…

— John Kasich

You can't get to a balanced budget and begin to pay down debt and thus create jobs in this country if you don't have…

— Ted Cruz

People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.

— Taylor Caldwell

I think America is strong enough to fix the problems, grace and honor to D.C. I think energy independence and control spending. We have…

— Ryan Zinke

If we can't have the courage to tell our constituents, hey, we've got to cut back, then if we can point to something and…

— Jeff Flake

Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets.

— Thomas Sowell

I think my husband did a pretty good job in the 1990s. I think a lot about what worked and how we can make…

— Hillary Clinton

Tonight, I propose a 21st Century Crime Bill to deploy the latest technologies and tactics to make our communities even safer. Our balanced budget…

— William J. Clinton

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 the requirement.…

— J. B. Pritzker

States, virtually all of them, have a constitutional requirement to operate on a balanced budget.

— John Kitzhaber

I'm pleased that I've balanced budgets. I was on the world of business for 25 years. If you didn't balance your budget, you went…

— Mitt Romney

Ron Paul would have demanded that entire departments be shuttered – not that the bums merely bring into balance what was stolen (taxes) with…

— Ilana Mercer

In Wisconsin, I led the Assembly to a balanced budget in face of fierce opposition from the status quo.

— Jeff Fitzgerald

Deficits do not in themselves produce inflation, nor does a balanced budget assure a stable price level.

— William Vickrey