Kevin Brady Quotes

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

It's insane to try to 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.

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

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.

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.

Bush has never sent over a balanced budget.

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

When Mr. Obama entered office, he said all the right things about getting Washington spending under control. He even promised to cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term. Obviously, that didn't happen.

I think where I differ a little bit, we absolutely have to think about the deficit looking down the road. And certainly that's something the president has said that we need to, as the economy recovers, have a plan in place for getting it down.

Monetary discipline forces fiscal discipline on the politicians as well.

My budget is similar to the Penny Plan, which cuts 1 percent a year for five or six years and balances the budget.

Look at what happened in the 1990s: when they balanced the federal budget, it was through growth in the economy and controlling spending.

If you force legislators to balance, at the end of the day, if it has to be balanced, then they step up and they become legislators and can find out where to cut.

I believe very firmly that we can get to balanced budgets without raising taxes and without cutting transfers to the provinces or to individuals.

In addition to reining in spending, taxes, tolls and fees, let's rein in how much the state borrows.

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

With control of the House, the Senate, and the White House, Republicans could have used their unified control of government to... balance the budget!

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

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.

The American people know that we cannot spend our way to prosperity.

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.

Memo to Congress: America's problem is not that government is too small. It's the spending, stupid!