People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance. — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share Image
In my political career, I'd like to see a constitutional balanced budget amendment. — Ken Buck 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
President Clinton will, I think, lift everyone's spirit. He was a good president, an economic, balanced budget president. And President Obama, I… — Bill Richardson 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
Not one Republican president has balanced the budget in 34 years. You can not trust Republicans with your money. — Howard Dean 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
It's all right to agree or disagree on the balanced budget amendment. It's all right to talk about how we're going to… — Sheila Jackson Lee 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
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
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
Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets. — Thomas Sowell 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
