Maggie Hassan Quotes

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.

Our system of keeping the federal government's books is a monument to the creativity of mankind ... We've cut government spending for 15 years in a row, and yet have spent more money in each of those years.

I did not come into government to win an award as the great accountant in the sky and balance budgets.

I'm for a balanced budget now.

Remarkably, there are leaders in Washington who don't understand why it's so important for us to have a budget.

What I wanted to do was see if we couldn't balance the budget.

Let us act with our eyes open. We are going to have a deficit next fiscal year and the year after that.

It is dangerous to play politics with the Budget.

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 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.

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

The people of Illinois sent me to Springfield to end the era of unbalanced budgets and runaway debt.

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.

Congress must do what we said we would and find ways to pay for bills we propose so we don't leave future generations mired in debt.

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

You cannot have a society where you spend more than you earn. I mean, it's just fundamentally not viable in the long run.

Bush has never sent over a balanced budget.

I think the whole issue of a debt ceiling makes no sense to me whatsoever. Anybody who is remotely adroit at arithmetic doesn't need a debt ceiling to tell you where you are.

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

Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.

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

If you don't get spending under control, eventually you're going to have a big tax increase.

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

The failure to work out sensible budgets makes it impossible for government agencies to make long-term plans, and instead leaves them scrambling to spend money in the short term.

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