- Budget
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- Nov 07, 2020
Balanced Budget Quotes
Weighing discipline against economic risk
These quotes debate balanced budgets from opposite directions, one calling it a painful but necessary promise, another warning it can be pursued too rigidly. Our Budget page covers spending choices more broadly.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Drive
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- Nov 07, 2020
The insane pursuit of the holy grail of a balanced budget in the end is going to drive the economy into a depression.
- Painful
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would submit a balanced budget if elected president, and it would be painful.
- Nov 07, 2020
Even with not having a balanced budget at this time, I support tax cuts. That will help limit spending.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our message of a balanced budget amendment, term limits to end career politicians, and a real plan to keep America safe is resonating with voters.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is time we passed a balanced budget amendment and return this government to limited spending.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one in the modern history of this country, no president, has done more to move toward a balanced budget than has President Bill Clinton.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my political career, I'd like to see a constitutional balanced budget amendment.
- Corresponding
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would vote to increase the debt limit if there was a corresponding level of cuts. And if there was some serious talk about a balanced budget amendment, which we as governors always had to deal with.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I left Washington, we actually had a balanced budget and we paid down the most amount of the national debt in modern history and cut taxes and created jobs. And I was the chief architect of that plan in '97.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Fierce
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Wisconsin, I led the Assembly to a balanced budget in face of fierce opposition from the status quo.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we can't have the courage to tell our constituents, hey, we've got to cut back, then if we can point to something and say, I would like to vote for more benefits for you, but this balanced budget amendment or statutory spending cap or whatever the device is, is preventing me from doing it.
- Constitution
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- Nov 07, 2020