We get to a balanced budget within eight to 10 years. We…

I'm coming to Washington, D.C., to do the people's work. And the people's work has to do with reducing spending and cutting budgets and,…

— Ken Buck

I'm gonna get us to a balanced budget, President Bush didn't.

— Mitt Romney

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

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

So all of this is possible. Now, in order for us to do it, we do have to close our deficit, and one of…

— Barack Obama

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

President Clinton will, I think, lift everyone's spirit. He was a good president, an economic, balanced budget president. And President Obama, I believe, has…

— Bill Richardson

Our balanced budget has an important psychological function. It is a signal that we can't continue to constantly take on debt.

— Wolfgang Schauble

When I ran for governor in 2016, we shook up the political establishment - then cut more than a billion dollars in spending, balanced…

— Doug Burgum

Of course, tax revenues have ended up being substantially higher than they were at the time these dire projections were made, and we are…

— Anonymous

Not in the constitution, but I would propose a law to the French parliament that provides for reducing the budget deficit year by year,…

— Francois Hollande

Most Americans are fiscally conservative and socially liberal. I'm advocating a balanced budget. But along with that, look, there should be gay marriage equality.…

— Gary Johnson

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

— Jeff Fitzgerald

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

— John Kitzhaber

The American people want a balanced budget. They want Congress to stop this barbaric practice of perpetual deficit spending. It really, if you think…

— Mike Lee