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
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
People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance. — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share Image
If we can't have the courage to tell our constituents, hey, we've got to cut back, then if we can point to… — Jeff Flake Copy Share Image
Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets. — Thomas Sowell 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
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
States, virtually all of them, have a constitutional requirement to operate on a balanced budget. — John Kitzhaber Copy Share Image
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,… — Mitt Romney 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
In Wisconsin, I led the Assembly to a balanced budget in face of fierce opposition from the status quo. — Jeff Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Deficits do not in themselves produce inflation, nor does a balanced budget assure a stable price level. — William Vickrey Copy Share Image
People ask how I can be a conservative and still want higher taxes. It makes my head spin, and I guess it… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
[Deficits are] a yawner. We, as Republicans, have talked about deficits and balanced budgets since the days of Roosevelt, and the people… — Paul Laxalt 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
“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
If congress refuses to obey its own rules. If congress refuses to pass a balanced budget. If congress refuses to read the… — Rand Paul 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
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
Most Americans are fiscally conservative and socially liberal. I'm advocating a balanced budget. But along with that, look, there should be gay… — Gary Johnson 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 state has a balanced budget. We have to live within our means in the state of Wyoming. I was in the… — John Barrasso Copy Share Image
The current budget that the Republicans are looking at never balances. How can that be fiscally responsible? And how can we look… — Rand Paul 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
Not in the constitution, but I would propose a law to the French parliament that provides for reducing the budget deficit year… — Francois Hollande Copy Share Image
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