Balance Quote by Melissa Bean

We developed during the 1990s a series of budget process rules that helped us bring to heel these deficits, diminishing every year and moving…

— John Spratt

Look at what happened in the 1990s: when they balanced the federal budget, it was through growth in the economy and controlling spending.

— Steve Scalise

With control of the House, the Senate, and the White House, Republicans could have used their unified control of government to... balance the budget!

— Seth Moulton

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

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

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

— Newt Gingrich

Defense spending as a share of the economy dropped significantly during the early 1990s, and that was one of the things, along with other…

— Peter Orszag

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

— Anonymous

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 deficit only became a big problem in the Reagan-Bush years. For 12 years, Republican presidents talked about balancing the budget, but failed to…

— Dick Gephardt

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

In the state of Michigan, where I served in the state Legislature, there was a lot of shuffling of money between one year and…

— Justin Amash