American politics Quote by Herbert Stein

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

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

After the government takes enough to balance the budget, the taxpayer has the job of budgeting the balance.

— Anonymous

Budgets don't balance themselves, it takes fiscal discipline, and both the union and the government will have to show taxpayers that discipline.

— Pierre Poilievre

[Deficits are] a yawner. We, as Republicans, have talked about deficits and balanced budgets since the days of Roosevelt, and the people simply haven't…

— Paul Laxalt

Government spending clearly needs some adjusting. But a budget is a statement of our priorities, and balancing our spending on the backs of our…

— Paul Tonko

The American people want a balanced budget. They want Congress to stop this barbaric practice of perpetual deficit spending. It really, if you think…

— Mike Lee

Just as we should never balance the budget on the backs of the poor, so it is an economic delusion to think you can…

— George Osborne

I have long been in favor of a balanced budget restriction at the level of the federal government of the United States. Because the…

— James M. Buchanan

Our balanced budget has an important psychological function. It is a signal that we can't continue to constantly take on debt.

— Wolfgang Schauble

It is my view that what is important is cutting government spending, however spending is financed. A so-called deficit is a disguised and hidden…

— Milton Friedman

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