Ilhan Omar Quotes

So I come before you with a budget that is honest in its discussion of our challenges, creative in its possible solutions, compassionate in its commitment to our most vulnerable, and balanced on the bottom line.

I'm for a balanced budget now.

What's really important to me is that we have fiscally responsible balanced budgets.

A budget should reflect the values and priorities of our nation and its people.

States, virtually all of them, have a constitutional requirement to operate on a balanced budget.

If you ask people do you think that government should spend less money than what it takes in, most people agree with that.

If the Republican Party continues to take the view that there must be no tax increases, we're stuck. Capitalism can't work without safety nets or fiscal prudence, and we need both in a sustainable balance.

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.

Most of the major increases in the debt ceiling have been accompanied by structural changes in the way we raise and spend money.

If you ask the question of Americans, should we pay our bills? One hundred percent would say yes. There's a significant misunderstanding on the debt ceiling. People think it's authorizing new spending. The debt ceiling doesn't authorize new spending; it allows us to pay obligations already incurred.

The debt ceiling should never be part of the budget negotiation process.

I was fortunate, I guess, to be part of some good fiscal discipline in the Bush administration. The budget I put forward was a balanced budget.

We need to focus on issues where we all agree, which is spending discipline and control and making sure that government, both in Springfield and in Washington, doesn't take more from your family budget.

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

This country doesn't have a revenue problem - it has a spending problem.

Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets.

You remember had this gigantic clock in the arena showing the size of the national debt. And Paul told America, if you elect Republicans, we can fix that. But, if Paul Ryan was being honest, he would've pointed to the debt clock and said, we built that.

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.

In my political career, I'd like to see a constitutional balanced budget amendment.

The truth is that the United States doesn't need, and shouldn't have, a debt ceiling. Every other democratic country, with the exception of Denmark, does fine without one.

Fiscal discipline is a priority in Romania, and we have already proven we are committed and able to make real progress in this area.

Of course we have to address the deficit if we win.

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.

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.

Memo to Congress: America's problem is not that government is too small. It's the spending, stupid!