Backs Quote by George Osborne

We agree with Simpson and Bowles and others who have looked at this. What's necessary is to stabilize the debt and then work from…

— David Axelrod

The cold harsh reality is that we have to balance the budget.

— Michael Bloomberg

There is no real justification for a requirement that a budget of any sort should be balanced, except as a rallying point for those…

— William Vickrey

You want to balance the budget in this country? We change the salary structure for Congress and the President. Every year they don't balance…

— Daniel Keys Moran

The problem is that people basically dangle debt in front of us. And the cost for the poor of course is much higher than…

— Dan Ariely

For almost 50 years polls have shown that a large majority of the public believe that the budget should be balanced, and for all…

— Herbert Stein

I won't support any budget, whether it's a Republican or a Democrat budget, that doesn't lead to balance.

— Rand Paul

The current budget that the Republicans are looking at never balances. How can that be fiscally responsible? And how can we look at the…

— Rand Paul

The budget idea, I may admit, is a sort of obsession with me. I believe in budgets. I want other people to believe in…

— Calvin Coolidge

If a budget is designed to show our values, it's clear where the majority stands: against opportunity, against education, and against America's hard-working, tax-paying…

— Ellen Tauscher

You'll notice that for many progressives, taking from the rich is not simply a necessity of budgeting but a moral imperative and a tool…

— David Harsanyi

Poor people choose now. Rich people choose balance.

— T. Harv Eker