2012 Quote by Mitt Romney

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

Well, I think the president has clearly submitted us a tight budget, but it's what's called for if we're going to get spending under…

— Thad Cochran

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

— Rand Paul

What I wanted to do was see if we couldn't balance the budget.

— Wilbur Mills

The cold harsh reality is that we have to balance the budget.

— Michael Bloomberg

We should balance the budget. If government programs are important enough, we need to pay for them with taxes or make cuts in lesser…

— Robert J. Samuelson

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

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

— Newt Gingrich

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

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

— Joni Ernst

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

We agree with Simpson and Bowles and others who have looked at this. What's necessary is to stabilize the debt and then work from…

— David Axelrod