Ken Buck Quotes

Can the amazing national debt be paid by a little trifling sum squeezed from year to year out of America?.... Would it not be much superior wisdom, and sounder policy, for a distressed kingdom to retrench the vast unnecessary expenses continually incurred by its enormous vices?

Again, the American people expect us to do what they are doing. It's tightening the belt, it's learning how to do more with less. That's a reality today, and we've got to do that in order to get the private sector growing.

The President has a short time to let people know that he is serious about getting spending under control.

In my view, the biggest challenge facing this country is that we are not living within our means. Spending cuts can only get us halfway there.

Honest people can disagree on policy. But where there can be no honest disagreement is the need to change our nation's debt course.

I think we should balance the federal budget tomorrow. I'm optimistic. I think Americans are optimistic. We went to the moon; we can balance the federal budget.

The American people are tired of the out-of-control spending, and they want Washington to get their act in order and stop spending money we don't have.

Today is the day for the complaining to end and for statesmanship to begin. Today I am taking action to cut state spending and balance the budget this year.

Families and businesses are tightening their belts to make ends meet - and Washington should too.

The Citizen's Petition reflects Vermont's spirit of pragmatism and across-the-board cooperation. I applaud the 'Campaign to Fix the Debt' for calling attention to one of the country's most pressing problems, our ballooning national debt, and for urging policymakers to find practical solutions.

Tonight, I come before you to announce that the federal deficit, once so incomprehensibly large that it had eleven zeroes, will be, simply zero.

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

We give lip service to the importance of deficit reduction, but Americans oppose every single thing that you might do to reduce the deficit.

We need to stop this overspending. We need to start turning this battleship in the right direction. And we all have to share in the sacrifice.

We are the ones that are trying to get Washington spending under control so it can live within its means.

My budget is similar to the Penny Plan, which cuts 1 percent a year for five or six years and balances the budget.

In times of huge fiscal deficits, no new revenues can be ignored, and renouncing any becomes well nigh politically impossible.

I am prepared to discuss the things that I believe we need to do not just to raise the debt limit. Raising the debt limit is the easiest thing. That's one vote away. The hard thing is to show the world we are serious about putting our spending in order so we can show people we'll able to pay our bills down the road.

If you force legislators to balance, at the end of the day, if it has to be balanced, then they step up and they become legislators and can find out where to cut.

There are only two honest ways to reduce our debt: cut spending or raise revenues.

I would submit a balanced budget if elected president, and it would be painful.

As a Main Street businessman, I believe we need to reduce runaway federal spending and address our national debt and the MAP Act provides Congress with the tools to accomplish this goal.

Increased spending, all these favors that we got to do for people - it's got to stop.

To be clear, aiming to reduce the national debt in the long term and running small surpluses when the economy is operating close to full capacity is what I mean when I talk about seeking to 'balance the books' - a sensible approach.

I'm coming to Washington, D.C., to do the people's work. And the people's work has to do with reducing spending and cutting budgets and, and trying to get a grip on the size of government.