budget balancing Quotes

I don't think they [Congress] ought to balance their budget on the backs of the poor.

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

We need a mayor who knows how to balance a budget, who understands the urgency of delivering all the services that a great city needs, who understand the need of working families.

Every year, virtually every governor balances the budget.

I was not going to balance the budgets on the backs of communities.

The first order of business is the elimination of the annual deficit.

My goal was to do the best job I could in governing the state of Wisconsin, in some cases making very tough decisions to have to bring our spending in line with the resources we had at the state level.

Balanced budgets have a lot to do with National Defense.

When Republicans say, 'The first thing you do when you do deficit reduction is reduce rates,' it would be like Democrats saying, 'The first thing you do when you do deficit reduction is provide free Medicare at age 55.' We'd like to do that! But it won't bring the deficit down. That's for sure.

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

If you could bring to me a majority of people to say that we're going to have $10 of spending cuts for $1 of revenue enhancement, put me in, coach.

I have been a strong proponent of pay-as-you-go. Every dollar that I've proposed, I've proposed an additional cut so that it matches.

Our priority must be to build a path towards balancing the budget, and we cannot tolerate growing deficits.

As Indiana's governor, I balanced eight budgets, never raised taxes, and left the largest surplus in state history. It wasn't always easy. Cuts had to be made and some initiatives deferred. Occasionally I had to say 'no.'

I will never, ever balance a budget on the backs of our seniors.

My constituents say, 'Congressman, have you balanced the budget?' And I'm going to say, 'Well, we're working on it.' And they are going to say, 'Well, Congressman, did you get rid of Fannie and Freddie?' And I'm going to say, 'Well, we're working on it.'

He [President Ronald Reagan] has tried to balance the budget on the backs of state and local government.

States should not balance their budgets on the backs of students.

Reduction in taxes will be justified only as we can show we can succeed in bringing the budget under control.... Until we can determine the extent to which expenditures can be reduced, it would not be wise to reduce our revenues.

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

Let's establish that no one in Washington actually cares about balancing the budget.

Only when the budget has been balanced and a substantial amount set aside for debt retirement, should we consider tax reduction.

Because tax cuts create an incentive to increase output, employment, and production, they also help balance the budget by reducing means-tested government expenditures. A faster-growing economy means lower unemployment and higher incomes, resulting in reduced unemployment benefits and other social welfare programs.

We should not, cannot, and will not balance the budget on the backs of our veterans.

We've got to start worrying about America. And if we don't start dealing with the debt we have and the deficit spending we have in Washington, politics doesn't matter, because the American people do realize that they have to balance their budgets.