Rand Paul Quotes

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

It's insane to try to balance the budget.

There is a difficult leap between talking about balancing the budget and actually doing it.

The Gillard government must give up its addiction to wasteful spending borrowing and taxing.

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

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

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

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

With control of the House, the Senate, and the White House, Republicans could have used their unified control of government to... balance the budget!

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

The American people know that we cannot spend our way to prosperity.

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.

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

Cutting budget deficits can never be just an exercise in economics.

As Indiana's governor, I balanced eight budgets, never raised taxes, and left the largest surplus in state history. It wasn't always easy. Cuts had to be made and some initiatives deferred. Occasionally I had to say 'no.'

I came to Congress to help reduce spending.

I don't have many litmus tests, but this is one: Any candidate who doesn't understand that we need to balance the budget should not be president of the United States.

In a clean break from the Obama years, and frankly from the years before this president, we will keep federal spending at 20 percent of GDP, or less. That is enough. The choice is whether to put hard limits on economic growth, or hard limits on the size of government, and we choose to limit government.

Our priority must be to build a path towards balancing the budget, and we cannot tolerate growing deficits.

When Mr. Obama entered office, he said all the right things about getting Washington spending under control. He even promised to cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term. Obviously, that didn't happen.

But the debt limit obviously is something that needs to and will be passed. That is not inconsistent with a process and a belief that we have to get significant deficit reduction.

The deficit only became a big problem in the Reagan-Bush years. For 12 years, Republican presidents talked about balancing the budget, but failed to propose one.

The most remarkable thing about Calvin Coolidge is that he served for 67 months, and when he left office, the budget was lower than he came in. In real terms - in nominal terms with vanilla on top - he cut the budget year over year.