Rand Paul Quotes

I won't support any budget, whether it's a Republican or a Democrat budget, that doesn't lead to balance.

When Bill Clinton was in town, he sent over a balanced budget.

You know, the Democrats want to balance the budget by raising spending and raising taxes. The Soviet Union had a balanced budget.

I am a deficit hawk.

In order to reduce the deficit, there has to be revenue in addition to cuts.

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.

I'm for a balanced budget now.

I believe that if we are able to, obviously we need to ensure that we have a robust budget that's balanced, but there's no way I would ever accept austerity.

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

Conservatives were brought up to hate deficits and justifiably so. We've long thought there are two things in Washington that are unbalanced - the budget and the liberals.

We need to balance the budget and force Washington to stop spending more than it takes in.

[I]n America, at least, we have a pretty good record for behaving in a fiscally responsible fashion, with one exception - namely, the fiscal irresponsibility that prevails when, and only when, hard-line conservatives are in power.

Too often in recent history liberal governments have been wrecked on rocks of loose fiscal policy.

Not in the constitution, but I would propose a law to the French parliament that provides for reducing the budget deficit year by year, until we have reached a balanced budget by 2017.

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.

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

The combination of Obamacare and taxes would be a disaster.

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 party in power almost always unapologetically engages in deficit spending, while the other party argues passionately against the evils of debt and deficits.

We are worried about the size of the deficit, which is why the president is pleased that the House and Senate have followed his lead in cutting the deficit in half over the next five years.

The American people reject the idea of giving Washington a blank check to increase the debt limit.

I can tell you if you look at the polls, Democrats, Republicans, Independents, they do not think we should increase the debt limit.

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

In Congress, I was a relentless advocate for fiscal responsibility.

Defense spending as a share of the economy dropped significantly during the early 1990s, and that was one of the things, along with other policy changes, that put us back on the path to a balanced budget.