Balancing act Quote by Kevin de Leon

One truism of federal budgeting is that growing deficits force difficult spending decisions, and when they do, programs to help the poor are usually…

— Brian Deese

Normally, when politicians talk about 'cutting the budget,' they really mean reducing the amount of increase. Actual spending goes up while the politicians claim…

— Mark McKinnon

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

— David H. Koch

There is a difficult leap between talking about balancing the budget and actually doing it.

— Kevin Brady

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

— Anonymous

It isn't as much you a spending problem as a priorities, and that is what the budget is, setting priorities. It's about timing. And…

— Nancy Pelosi

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

You balance the budget by restraining the growth of government and encouraging the growth of the private sector.

— Mitt Romney

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

Our priority must be to build a path towards balancing the budget, and we cannot tolerate growing deficits.

— Anonymous

The budget should be balanced not by more taxes, but by reduction of follies.

— Herbert Hoover

Traditionally, the way deficits have been cut is you hold expenditures more or less constant in real dollars and then let growth come in…

— Phil Bredesen