Amendments Quote by John Barrasso

States, virtually all of them, have a constitutional requirement to operate on a balanced budget.

— John Kitzhaber

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

It is time we passed a balanced budget amendment and return this government to limited spending.

— Newt Gingrich

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

All the states are required, either by constitution or by statute, to have balanced budgets - they're not able to print money. So they…

— Gary Locke

In my political career, I'd like to see a constitutional balanced budget amendment.

— Ken Buck

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

We need to balance the budget and force Washington to stop spending more than it takes in.

— Joni Ernst

The way to balance the budget is for Congress to cut Social Security, move the retirement age to 70, cut defense, Medicare and veterans…

— Howard Dean

I'm gonna get us to a balanced budget, President Bush didn't.

— Mitt Romney

If there are few conservatives in the senate wing of the Republican Party that will say no to a budget that never balances, we…

— Rand Paul

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

— Rand Paul