Virgil Goode Quotes

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.

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

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

Like Ike [President Eisenhower] did. Talk economy and then spend away.

I am a deficit hawk.

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

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.

Congress must demonstrate fiscal responsibility.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Coolidge believed that government officials who tell themselves that spending benefits the economy delude themselves and the citizens. Government budgets promote human freedom.

I personally do not worship at the alter of a balanced budget.

Tonight I come before you to announce that the Federal Deficit will be simply zero.

Let us have the courage to stop borrowing to meet continuing deficits. Revenues must cover expenditures by one means or another. Any government, like any family, can, for a year, spend a little more than it earns. But you know and I know that a continuation of the habit means the poor house.

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

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

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

Now fiscal responsibility is generally a good thing, and so a centrism mindlessly focused on tweaking legislation away from deficit spending has its uses.