Will Rogers Quotes

I am not one of those who believe that we are bound to vote supplies to cover a deficiency in the treasury whenever called on, without investigating the causes which occasioned it.

My conviction of the necessity of further legislative provisions for the safe-keeping and disbursement of the public moneys and my opinion in regard to the measures best adapted to the accomplishment of those objects have been already submitted to you.

A budget should reflect the values and priorities of our nation and its people.

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

Economy in government does not mean spending little ... It means spending what you have and spending it well.

There are no uncontrollable outlays except for debt interest. Outlays are what they are due to legislation.

May the debt of the United States be discharged with speed and punctuality; and let not the people be deceived, by having the funds, established for that purpose, put to other uses.

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'm for a balanced budget now.

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

I think one thing that Montanans all agree on, whether you're Republican or Democrat, is they want money spent appropriately.

If we could manage our own finances the way the Congress does the nation's, we'd all be living in high cotton and eating high on the hog.

It's all right to agree or disagree on the balanced budget amendment. It's all right to talk about how we're going to appropriate.

You know, even people who talk about cutting spending and they go 'That's not the spending that I was actually talking about that you're supposed to be cutting.' Well, we have to be looking across the board.

It is time for us to insist that we are accountable for the money that we are spending.

Of course we have to address the deficit if we win.

So I come before you with a budget that is honest in its discussion of our challenges, creative in its possible solutions, compassionate in its commitment to our most vulnerable, and balanced on the bottom line.

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.

People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income.

It's a bit ridiculous to have people who have two years of experience handling an $83 billion budget.

I don't mind the government accruing debts as long as every dollar is spent effectively with a high return. That works out fine. If you accumulate debts and waste your money, that's, of course, a disaster.

The American people expect more from Congress. They expect fiscal responsibility and common sense. They expect us to return to the pay-as-you-go budget rules that we had enacted in the past that helped us establish a surplus, however briefly.

I came to Congress to help reduce spending.

Well, first of all, let's go right to it. We're going to balance the budget. We should live within our own means, and we should read the bills and work with the American people.

We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.