America Quote by Raja Krishnamoorthi

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

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

— Anonymous

We can't get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for…

— Barack Obama

Just as we should never balance the budget on the backs of the poor, so it is an economic delusion to think you can…

— George Osborne

Medicare in particular, will run out of money, and we will not be able to sustain that program.

— Barack Obama

While I recognize the great value and importance of prescription drugs and strongly support a continued U.S. focus on pharmaceutical research and development, our…

— Michael K. Simpson

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

— Michael Bloomberg

Government spending clearly needs some adjusting. But a budget is a statement of our priorities, and balancing our spending on the backs of our…

— Paul Tonko

[Several candidates talked of problems with the federal Medicare system, particularly concerns about whether it would cover prescription drug costs in the future.] We're…

— John McCain

Rather than squander the surplus on tax breaks for the rich, we should add a prescription drug benefit to the Medicare program, shore up…

— Bennie Thompson

If a budget is designed to show our values, it's clear where the majority stands: against opportunity, against education, and against America's hard-working, tax-paying…

— Ellen Tauscher

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