Enda Kenny Quotes

You could make a case for job creation or education, police on the street, but none of those things can happen unless we got our financial house in order.

Without a doubt, first thing we should do is clean up our fiscal house, and that starts with balancing our budgets and digging out of this red ink. We cannot expect to continue in this fashion and remain the leader of the free world.

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.

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

Fiscal discipline is a priority in Romania, and we have already proven we are committed and able to make real progress in this area.

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

If it took multiple debt ceiling hikes, I'd rather achieve the savings.

It's insane to try to balance the budget.

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

But the debt limit obviously is something that needs to and will be passed. That is not inconsistent with a process and a belief that we have to get significant deficit reduction.

Tonight I come before you to announce that the Federal Deficit will be simply zero.

I am prepared to discuss the things that I believe we need to do not just to raise the debt limit. Raising the debt limit is the easiest thing. That's one vote away. The hard thing is to show the world we are serious about putting our spending in order so we can show people we'll able to pay our bills down the road.

Only one thing can save this country, and that's to get a handle on this deficit and debt issue.

My job is to rectify the public finances and hand the country back to the people so they can really have a future, and that is what I will do.

You see, in government, people give you a mandate, and you've got to fulfil that. Ours is very clear. Fix our public finances and get our country working.

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

It's time to stop spending money we don't have and balance the budget.

But I think the global economy will understand that the United States has the ability to meet its obligations. But it's not going to be able to do it over the long term if we can't control the growth of government.

We'll set our approach to borrowing, to spending, to taxation, in a sensible way on a sensible timescale.

As the President reviewed the state of the union and unveiled his second-term agenda, he fell short of adequately explaining how he intends to set America back on the course of fiscal responsibility and secure the fiscal health of the nation.

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.

Make no mistake: I will work with both Democrats and Republicans to cut wasteful spending and reduce our debt in a balanced, responsible way.

I was the chairman of the House Budget Committee and one of the chief architects the last time we balanced a budget, and it was the first time we had done it since man walked on the moon. We had a $5 trillion surplus and we cut taxes.

Cutting budget deficits can never be just an exercise in economics.

Sound public finances are the essential foundation on which to construct a better-balanced economy from the wreckage of Labour's boom and bust. But it is economic growth that will create the jobs and the prosperity for the future and enable us to pay down Labour's debt.