William Vickrey Quotes

I'm for a balanced budget now.

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

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

We should reduce total government spending as a percentage of the economy. The left wants to focus on the deficit so they can take us away from the focus on spending as a percentage of the economy.

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

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

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.

I am a deficit hawk.

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

Congress must demonstrate fiscal responsibility.

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

In my political career, I'd like to see a constitutional balanced budget amendment.

Bush has never sent over a balanced budget.

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.

If you ask people do you think that government should spend less money than what it takes in, most people agree with that.

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

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

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

The Federal Government has no fiscal policy, for the tail of political expediency has long wagged the dog of prudent policy in Washington.

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.

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

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

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.