Ron Paul Quotes

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 means.

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

We need real leadership, Democrat, Republican and independent to stand up and say, we have to live within our means.

I'm for a balanced budget now.

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

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.

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.

Ultimately, we can't just keep doubling our national debt every eight years. We have got to get that under control and not spend more than we bring in.

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

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

As I have traveled throughout my Congressional district, the one thing I heard loud and clear was simply please stop spending money you do not have, rein in spending, live within a budget.

I think what they're looking for is for us to keep our promises and to do the simple things, like cutting spending and being responsible.

Every Democrat on Capitol Hill professes to be a fiscal hawk.

I'm one of those that have said, one of my key principles is I will not support a health care reform bill that is not deficit-neutral, period.

Washington has to stop spending money we don’t have for projects we don’t want.

You cannot borrow and spend your way into prosperity. It does not work.

Washington, D.C., could learn a few budget lessons from Florida. The contrast between our state and the nation's capital is remarkable.

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.

I do think a focus on fiscal restraint is a central element of the Tea Party, and thank goodness for it!

We need a straitjacket around Congress when it comes to spending so that they are forced to do what 49 states are required to do and what every family business and every family is required to do, and that's live within their means.

With its record spending and deficits, the Obama administration has shown little interest in taking fiscal responsibility. That is a mistake.

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

We are absolutely going to have to provide fiscal security to people; in other words, we are going to have to show the country and the world that the country can live within its means.

Only one thing can save this country, and that's to get a handle on this deficit and debt issue.