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I think the Republican budget priorities are messed up. I salute for the way they're attacking some of the entitlement programs, but they are…

— David Brooks

I think to balance the budget, probably every federal department has to take cuts in my opinion.

— David H. Koch

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

When you're talking about long-term deficit reduction, $4 trillion worth, entitlement reform needs to be part of it.

— Dick Durbin

I think this is an exciting time where we can actually get a compromise between Democrats and Republicans, and we have to for this…

— Amy Klobuchar

Well, first of all, let's go right to it. We're going to balance the budget. We should live within our own means, and we…

— Jeff Sessions

I think we all know the budgetary environment we live in. We all know the troubling future for federal deficits. They should pay for…

— Douglas Holtz-Eakin

The federal budget deficit isn't the nation's major economic problem and deficit reduction shouldn't be our major goal. Our problem is lack of good…

— Robert Reich

We absolutely need to reform the Congressional budget-writing process.

— Patrick McHenry

The discussion in Washington has changed dramatically. I mean, it's no longer a question of should we address entitlements - it's no longer a…

— Mark Zandi

In order to truly get deficit spending and federal debt under control, the Trump administration is going to have to eventually address entitlement reform.…

— Katie Pavlich

We have a serious structural deficit problem. And it needs to be addressed. The president is trying to address it through reforms of Social…

— John W. Snow