Balanced Budget Quotes
Weighing discipline against economic risk
These quotes debate balanced budgets from opposite directions, one calling it a painful but necessary promise, another warning it can be pursued too rigidly. Our Budget page covers spending choices more broadly.
Deficits do not in themselves produce inflation, nor does a balanced budget assure a stable price level.
The insane pursuit of the holy grail of a balanced budget in the end is going to drive the economy into a depression.
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I would submit a balanced budget if elected president, and it would be painful.
Even with not having a balanced budget at this time, I support tax cuts. That will help limit spending.
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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.
Our message of a balanced budget amendment, term limits to end career politicians, and a real plan to keep America safe is resonating with voters.
It is time we passed a balanced budget amendment and return this government to limited spending.
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.
In my political career, I'd like to see a constitutional balanced budget amendment.
Budget Quotes
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.
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...
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.
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...
In Wisconsin, I led the Assembly to a balanced budget in face of fierce opposition from the status quo.
Constitution Quotes
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...
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.
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.
A Syriza government will respect Greece's obligation as a eurozone member to maintain a balanced budget and will commit to quantitative targets.
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