Balanced Budget Amendment Quotes

You want to balance the budget in this country? We change the salary structure for Congress and the President. Every year they don't balance the budget, we don't pay them.

We're going to finally wrassle to the ground this gigantic orgasm that is just out of control.

I think we should balance the federal budget tomorrow. I'm optimistic. I think Americans are optimistic. We went to the moon; we can balance the federal budget.

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.

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.

You can promise anything in this world because it isn't a real world. We don't have to balance the budget.

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.

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.

In my political career, I'd like to see a constitutional balanced budget amendment.

I support responsible spending, and balancing the budget, but this tax cut and the budget cuts of last month accomplish neither of these goals.

I opposed Clinton's budget deal in 1997 because he brought in $115 billion cut in Medicare that created greater pressure for providers not to participate.

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

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

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.

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.

It is time we passed a balanced budget amendment and return this government to limited spending.

Well, let's be clear, I'm the only one on the stage who actually has a five-year budget that balances.

If there are few conservatives in the senate wing of the Republican Party that will say no to a budget that never balances, we could have the power to say to the leadership, you know what, need a better budget.

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.