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I'm for a balanced budget now.
Virgil Goode / Virginia State Senator
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Bush has never sent over a balanced budget.
Chaka Fattah / U.s. Representative
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When Bill Clinton was in town, he sent over a balanced budget.
Chaka Fattah / U.s. Representative
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I would submit a balanced budget if elected president, and it would be painful.
Virgil Goode / Virginia State Senator
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In my political career, I'd like to see a constitutional balanced budget amendment.
Ken Buck / Attorney
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It is time we passed a balanced budget amendment and return this government to limited spending.
Newt Gingrich / Former U.s. Representative
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States, virtually all of them, have a constitutional requirement to operate on a balanced budget.
John Kitzhaber / Former Governor Of Oregon
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In Wisconsin, I led the Assembly to a balanced budget in face of fierce opposition from the status quo.
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Even with not having a balanced budget at this time, I support tax cuts. That will help limit spending.
Steve Chabot / United States Representative
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Deficits do not in themselves produce inflation, nor does a balanced budget assure a stable price level.
William Vickrey / Nobel Prize Winner
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Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets.
Thomas Sowell / Economist
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The insane pursuit of the holy grail of a balanced budget in the end is going to drive the economy into a depression.
William Vickrey / Nobel Prize Winner
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You know, the Democrats want to balance the budget by raising spending and raising taxes. The Soviet Union had a balanced budget.
Tom Delay / Former United States Representative
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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.
Sheila Jackson Lee / U.s. Representative
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We still have a major problem in debt with America that we have to find efficiencies in government to get us back to a balanced budget.
James Lankford / U.s. Representative
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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.
Mario Cuomo / Former Governor Of New York
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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.
Rob Portman / United States Senator
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A Syriza government will respect Greece's obligation as a eurozone member to maintain a balanced budget and will commit to quantitative targets.
Alexis Tsipras / Greek Politician
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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.
Ralph Norman /
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The biggest source of getting the country to a balanced budget is not by raising taxes or by cutting spending. It's by encouraging the growth of the economy.
Mitt Romney / Former Governor Of Massachusetts
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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.
Francois Hollande / President Of France
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My views on everything from welfare to a balanced budget to affirmative action can be traced to what Buddy and Helen Watts taught me as a young boy growing up poor but proud in Eufaula.
J. C. Watts / Former U.s. Representative
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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.
John Barrasso / United States Senator
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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.
Jon Huntsman, Jr. / Former Governor Of Utah
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Fourth, to assure every entrepreneur and every job creator that their investments in America will not vanish as have those in Greece, we will cut the deficit and put America on track to a balanced budget.
Mitt Romney / Former Governor Of Massachusetts
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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.
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I served at a time when we had a strong economy, when we had deficits that we would die for today. I was able to propose a balanced budget, not over ten years, but over five years. I'm proud of that record.
Rob Portman / United States Senator
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I've got an extreme bias toward governors... they know what it's like to make hard decisions. They know what it's like to actually balance a budget - have a budget, first of all, and have a balanced budget.
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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.
John Kasich / Former United States Representative
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Of course, tax revenues have ended up being substantially higher than they were at the time these dire projections were made, and we are very close now to having a balanced budget. All that has been very helpful.
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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.
John Barrasso / United States Senator
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I'm a different kind of Republican. I've introduced a five-year balanced budget. I've introduced the largest tax cut in our history. I stood for ten and a half hours on the Senate floor to defend your right to be left alone.
Rand Paul / United States Senator
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President Clinton will, I think, lift everyone's spirit. He was a good president, an economic, balanced budget president. And President Obama, I believe, has been a very good president, too, and we will get reelected. You watch.
Bill Richardson / Former Governor Of New Mexico
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My highest priority is to make sure we get Americans back to work. And that we have rising incomes again and that we have a deficit reduction program in place that convinces the world that we're on track to having a balanced budget.
Mitt Romney / Former Governor Of Massachusetts
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Most Americans are fiscally conservative and socially liberal. I'm advocating a balanced budget. But along with that, look, there should be gay marriage equality. A woman should have the right to choose. Let's not build a fence across the border.
Gary Johnson / Former Governor Of New Mexico
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When you're governor, you've got to step up to the plate; you've got to make a proposal for a balanced budget. That's the requirement. And then you've got to sit down and negotiate if the folks that you need to work with disagree with you on points.
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The American people want a balanced budget. They want Congress to stop this barbaric practice of perpetual deficit spending. It really, if you think about it, is a form of taxation without representation. We fought a war over that issue and we won that war.
Mike Lee / United States Senator
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I think America is strong enough to fix the problems, grace and honor to D.C. I think energy independence and control spending. We have to go to a balanced budget. Quite frankly, as far as our debt goes, I don't think you can tax your way out of it. I think people are taxed enough.
Ryan Zinke / American Politician
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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.
Jeff Flake / United States Senator
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