States, virtually all of them, have a constitutional requirement to operate on a balanced budget. — John Kitzhaber 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
We've not had one Republican president in 34 years balance the budget. You can't trust right-wing Republicans with your money. You ought… — Howard Dean Copy Share Image
Every tax cut I call for is targeted, it's responsible and it is paid for within my balanced budget plan. My tax… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
I balanced the budget for four straight years, paid off $405 billion in debt - pretty conservative. The first entitlement reform of… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
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
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
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
Fourth, to assure every entrepreneur and every job creator that their investments in America will not vanish as have those in Greece,… — Mitt Romney 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
I don't want to cost jobs. My priority is jobs. And so what I do is I bring down the tax rates,… — Mitt Romney 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
[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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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 would vote to increase the debt limit if there was a corresponding level of cuts. And if there was some serious… — Jon Huntsman, Jr Copy Share Image
When I left Washington, we actually had a balanced budget and we paid down the most amount of the national debt in… — John Kasich 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
I'm a conservative, pro-life governor in a state where it is really tough to be both. A state like New Jersey, with… — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
Franklin Roosevelt ran on a balanced budget in 1932, and the greatest president, certainly, of the 20th century. So the idea that… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
The American people want a balanced budget. They want Congress to stop this barbaric practice of perpetual deficit spending. It really, if… — Mike Lee Copy Share Image
The Republican promise is for policies that create economic growth. Republicans believe lower taxes, less regulation, balanced budgets, a solvent Social Security… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
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