#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. ↗

— Jon Huntsman, Jr.

#always #amendment #balanced #balanced budget #balanced budget amendment

Balance the federal budget now, not 15 years from now, not 20 years from now, but now. And throw out the entire federal tax system, replace it with a fair tax, a consumption tax, that by all measurements is just that. It's fair. ↗

— Gary Johnson

#budget #consumption #entire #fair #federal

Democrats were quick to point out that President Bush's budget creates a 1 trillion dollar deficit. The White House quickly responded with 'Hey, look over there, it's Saddam Hussein.' ↗

— Craig Kilborn

#bush #creates #deficit #democrats #dollar

States, virtually all of them, have a constitutional requirement to operate on a balanced budget. ↗

— John Kitzhaber

#balanced budget #budget #constitutional #operate #requirement

First of all, pharmaceutical costs are the single fastest-growing part of our health care budget. ↗

— John Kitzhaber

#care #costs #first #first of all #health

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

— Wilbur Mills

#budget #i #see #wanted

The budget should be balanced, the treasury should be refilled, the public debt should be reduced and the arrogance of public officials should be controlled. ↗

— Ross Perot

#balanced #budget #controlled #debt #officials

So when I got the chance to do my first talk show, 50 years ago last month, I never had any writers. There was no budget - it was just me and the camera and my friend who was the director. I talked about what I'd done that week. ↗

— Regis Philbin

#ago #any #budget #camera #chance

Music is one of the easy things to eliminate because of budget cuts, but it's important to give kids the avenue to express themselves. ↗

— Ted Poe

#because #budget #budget cuts #cuts #easy

I remember very clearly at the first budget review having a pretty direct conversation with the head of manufacturing... We began to get huge improvements in productivity and responsiveness. I got a chance to see that firsthand. ↗

— Rick Wagoner

#budget #chance #clearly #conversation #direct