1990s Quote by Steve Scalise

The budget enforcement rules of the 1990s were an important part of getting the budget back into balance. It was done on a bipartisan…

— Melissa Bean

Under the administration of George W. Bush, you will recall, federal spending grew pretty significantly. At the same time, the number of people directly…

— Thomas Frank

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

The liberal fiscal spending of the 2004-08 period was made possible both by rising government revenues and national income growth and by relative comfort…

— Sanjaya Baru

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

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

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

Getting the budget balanced, regulatory reform, tax reform - I think these lead to economic growth.

— Todd Young

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

The budget doesn't have much control over the government. Then again, the government doesn't have much control over the budget.

— P. J. O'Rourke

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

— Mitt Romney

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

— Herbert Hoover