Carol Moseley Braun Quotes

We all have to sacrifice to reduce the debt, but we can’t sacrifice our future.

Congress must do what we said we would and find ways to pay for bills we propose so we don't leave future generations mired in debt.

When our most important issue is the debt that we're piling on our children and grandchildren, I think it's pretty helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate who has actually managed billions of dollars and knows how to cut billions of dollars.

The financial report makes it very clear that if we got into honest budgeting today, that in fact we would find ourselves with a much larger deficit than we have today.

I look at this in a very simple way: I want to bring the debt down.

Every generation has an obligation to leave its children in a better position than it inherited. Our representatives in Washington are breaking faith with that covenant. America must reduce its federal spending and accumulation of debt for the sake of generations to come.

It is time we passed a balanced budget amendment and return this government to limited spending.

A budget is a moral document.

The best way for the Government to maintain its credit is to pay as it goes—not by resorting to loans, but by keeping out of debt.

Those who say we can continue to indefinitely borrow from our children and grandchildren and generations to come in fact are eroding our ability to do what we ought to do in education, in health care and in other things.

I urge the Congress to avoid running up large costs for future generations of Americans.

I'm for a balanced budget now.

The people of Illinois sent me to Springfield to end the era of unbalanced budgets and runaway debt.

Budgets can make or break reputations and governments.

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

Something different has to be done before we make another budget deal that increases spending and raises the debt some more. Our current course is not reasonable. Our current course is insane.

You cannot have a society where you spend more than you earn. I mean, it's just fundamentally not viable in the long run.

I will always vote what I have promised, and always vote the Constitution, as well as I will not vote for one single penny that isn't paid for, because debt is the monster, debt is what's going to eat us up and that is why our economy is on the brink.

We have to honor our commitments to today's beneficiaries, but we can't solve the growing deficit and debt problems unless we are smart, courageous, and sensible in planning for future.

I have three adult children, and I have four grandchildren. I want to stop the deficits. I want to make sure that we're not passing on to my children and my grandchildren deficits and that we cannot repay and that they will have to repay and maybe they won't be able to repay them.

Remarkably, there are leaders in Washington who don't understand why it's so important for us to have a budget.

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.

Make no mistake: I will work with both Democrats and Republicans to cut wasteful spending and reduce our debt in a balanced, responsible way.

The reason we have such a reform budget is because we've been thinking about these things for a long time.

If we don't change the way Washington operates we're going to bankrupt our children and grandchildren.