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
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
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
Deficits do not in themselves produce inflation, nor does a balanced budget assure a stable price level. — William Vickrey 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
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
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
I was the chairman of the House Budget Committee and one of the chief architects the last time we balanced a budget,… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
I think America is strong enough to fix the problems, grace and honor to D.C. I think energy independence and control spending.… — Ryan Zinke Copy Share Image
When I ran for governor in 2016, we shook up the political establishment - then cut more than a billion dollars in… — Doug Burgum Copy Share Image
If we cannot return to fiscal integrity because the public prefers profusion and prodigality over balanced budgets, we cannot escape paying the… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
My views on everything from welfare to a balanced budget to affirmative action can be traced to what Buddy and Helen Watts… — J. C. Watts Copy Share Image
I served at a time when we had a strong economy, when we had deficits that we would die for today. I… — Rob Portman Copy Share Image
I spent ten years in the private sector, actually learning how business works. I'm the governor of Ohio, and I inherited a… — John Kasich 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
The core of America is not racist. It is not hostile to women. It is increasingly offended by gay bashing. Yet it… — Paul Tsongas Copy Share Image
I'm a different kind of Republican. I've introduced a five-year balanced budget. I've introduced the largest tax cut in our history. I… — Rand Paul 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
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
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
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
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
“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
States, virtually all of them, have a constitutional requirement to operate on a balanced budget. — John Kitzhaber 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
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
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
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
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
It is time we passed a balanced budget amendment and return this government to limited spending. — Newt Gingrich 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
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
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