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In my political career, I'd like to see a constitutional balanced budget amendment. -- Ken Buck
It is time we passed a balanced budget amendment and return this government to limited spending. -- Newt Gingrich
Deficits do not in themselves produce inflation, nor does a balanced budget assure a stable price level. -- William Vickrey
You know, the Democrats want to balance the budget by raising spending and raising taxes. The Soviet Union had a balanced budget. -- Tom DeLay
The insane pursuit of the holy grail of a balanced budget in the end is going to drive the economy into a depression. -- William Vickrey
Our state has a balanced budget. We have to live within our means in the state of Wyoming. I was in the state senate. This country needs a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution. -- John Barrasso
I would vote to increase the debt limit if there was a corresponding level of cuts. And if there was some serious talk about a balanced budget amendment, which we as governors always had to deal with. -- Jon Huntsman, Jr.
I'm a conservative, pro-life governor in a state where it is really tough to be both. A state like New Jersey, with lots of Democrats, but still we cut taxes, we balanced budgets. We fought the teacher's union. -- Chris Christie
Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets. -- Thomas Sowell
It's all right to agree or disagree on the balanced budget amendment. It's all right to talk about how we're going to appropriate. -- Sheila Jackson Lee
My views on everything from welfare to a balanced budget to affirmative action can be traced to what Buddy and Helen Watts taught me as a young boy growing up poor but proud in Eufaula. -- J. C. Watts
Fourth, to assure every entrepreneur and every job creator that their investments in America will not vanish as have those in Greece, we will cut the deficit and put America on track to a balanced budget. -- Mitt Romney
I served at a time when we had a strong economy, when we had deficits that we would die for today. I was able to propose a balanced budget, not over ten years, but over five years. I'm proud of that record. -- Rob Portman
Bush has never sent over a balanced budget. -- Chaka Fattah
When Bill Clinton was in town, he sent over a balanced budget. -- Chaka Fattah
States, virtually all of them, have a constitutional requirement to operate on a balanced budget. -- John Kitzhaber
Even with not having a balanced budget at this time, I support tax cuts. That will help limit spending. -- Steve Chabot
The American way is the way most law-abiding Americans live - in debt. Does this make a balanced budget un-American? -- Cullen Hightower
A Syriza government will respect Greece's obligation as a eurozone member to maintain a balanced budget and will commit to quantitative targets. -- Alexis Tsipras
The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending. -- Thomas Sowell
No one in the modern history of this country, no president, has done more to move toward a balanced budget than has President Bill Clinton. -- Mario Cuomo
You can't get to a balanced budget and begin to pay down debt and thus create jobs in this country if you don't have specific plans to make it work. -- Ted Cruz
Not in the constitution, but I would propose a law to the French parliament that provides for reducing the budget deficit year by year, until we have reached a balanced budget by 2017. -- Francois Hollande
If we cannot return to fiscal integrity because the public prefers profusion and prodigality over balanced budgets, we cannot escape paying the price, which is ever lower incomes and standards of living for all. -- Hans F. Sennholz
If congress refuses to obey its own rules. If congress refuses to pass a balanced budget. If congress refuses to read the Bills. Then I say, sweep the place clean, limit their terms, and send them HOME! -- Rand Paul
Of course, tax revenues have ended up being substantially higher than they were at the time these dire projections were made, and we are very close now to having a balanced budget. All that has been very helpful. -- Charles M. Vest
Most Americans are fiscally conservative and socially liberal. I'm advocating a balanced budget. But along with that, look, there should be gay marriage equality. A woman should have the right to choose. Let's not build a fence across the border. -- Gary Johnson
Bill Clinton gives the appearance of taking stands-for some sort of tax cut, some sort of welfare reform, some sort of balanced budget-but these are ploys, mirages: they exist only to undermine positions taken by the Republicans. He doesn't fight for anything substantive-except of course, re-election. ...He has fallen into the dangerous habit of lip synching the presidency: he gives the appearance of leadership, but not the substance. -- Joe Klein
I'm a different kind of Republican. I've introduced a five-year balanced budget. I've introduced the largest tax cut in our history. I stood for ten and a half hours on the Senate floor to defend your right to be left alone.But I've also gone to Chicago. I've gone to Detroit. I've been to Ferguson, I've been to Baltimore, because I want our party to be bigger, better and bolder. -- Rand Paul
In Wisconsin, I led the Assembly to a balanced budget in face of fierce opposition from the status quo. -- Jeff Fitzgerald
The Republican promise is for policies that create economic growth. Republicans believe lower taxes, less regulation, balanced budgets, a solvent Social Security and Medicare will stimulate economic growth. -- Rand Paul
Our state has a balanced budget. We have to live within our means in the state of Wyoming. I was in the state senate. This country needs a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution. We need to live within our means. -- John Barrasso
The course of unbalanced budgets is the road to ruin -- Herbert Hoover
On Bill Clinton: I have a simple question: Who's the last President to give you a balanced budget? -- William J. Clinton
Our balanced budget has an important psychological function. It is a signal that we can't continue to constantly take on debt. -- Wolfgang Schauble
We're for the balanced budget amendment and yet the budget we're going to introduce, that we're going to repeal Obamacare with never balances. -- Rand Paul
All the states are required, either by constitution or by statute, to have balanced budgets - they're not able to print money. So they have to focus on establishing priorities. -- Gary Locke
I think my husband did a pretty good job in the 1990s.I think a lot about what worked and how we can make it work again, million new jobs, a balanced budget. -- Hillary Clinton
Every tax cut I call for is targeted, it's responsible and it is paid for within my balanced budget plan. My tax cuts will not undermine our economy. They will speed economic growth. -- William J. Clinton
Defense spending as a share of the economy dropped significantly during the early 1990s, and that was one of the things, along with other policy changes, that put us back on the path to a balanced budget. -- Peter Orszag
President Clinton will, I think, lift everyone's spirit. He was a good president, an economic, balanced budget president. And President Obama, I believe, has been a very good president, too, and we will get reelected. You watch. -- Bill Richardson
Of course, tax revenues have ended up being substantially higher than they were at the time these dire projections were made, and we are very close now to having a balanced budget. All that has been very helpful. -- Charles M. Vest
I'm a different kind of Republican. I've introduced a five-year balanced budget. I've introduced the largest tax cut in our history. I stood for ten and a half hours on the Senate floor to defend your right to be left alone. -- Rand Paul
When I left Washington, we actually had a balanced budget and we paid down the most amount of the national debt in modern history and cut taxes and created jobs. And I was the chief architect of that plan in '97. -- John Kasich
The American people want a balanced budget. They want Congress to stop this barbaric practice of perpetual deficit spending. It really, if you think about it, is a form of taxation without representation. We fought a war over that issue and we won that war. -- Mike Lee
People ask how I can be a conservative and still want higher taxes. It makes my head spin, and I guess it shows how old I am. But I thought that conservatives were supposed to like balanced budgets. I thought it was the conservative position to not leave heavy indebtedness to our grandchildren. -- Ben Stein
If we can't have the courage to tell our constituents, hey, we've got to cut back, then if we can point to something and say, I would like to vote for more benefits for you, but this balanced budget amendment or statutory spending cap or whatever the device is, is preventing me from doing it. -- Jeff Flake
I spent ten years in the private sector, actually learning how business works. I'm the governor of Ohio, and I inherited a state that was on the brink of dying. And we turned it all around with jobs and balanced budgets and rising credit and tax cuts, and the state is unified, and people have hope again in Ohio. -- John Kasich
Tonight, I propose a 21st Century Crime Bill to deploy the latest technologies and tactics to make our communities even safer. Our balanced budget will help put up to 50,000 more police on the street in the areas hardest hit by crime, and then to equip them with new tools from crime-mapping computers to digital mug shots. We must break the deadly cycle of drugs and crime. -- William J. Clinton
There is no real justification for a requirement that a budget of any sort should be balanced, except as a rallying point for those who seek to hamstring government. -- William Vickrey
Every budget I have ever prepared has been balanced. -- Ken Livingstone
The budget should be balanced not by more taxes, but by reduction of follies. -- Herbert Hoover
The budget should be balanced, the treasury should be refilled, the public debt should be reduced and the arrogance of public officials should be controlled. -- Ross Perot
The budget should be balanced, the treasury refilled, public debt reduced, the arrogance of officialdom tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero

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