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You balance the budget by restraining the growth of government and encouraging the growth of the private sector.

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.

The cold harsh reality is that we have to balance the budget.

Government spending clearly needs some adjusting. But a budget is a statement of our priorities, and balancing our spending on the backs of our nation's seniors is not the right approach.

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.

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.

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

Just as we should never balance the budget on the backs of the poor, so it is an economic delusion to think you can balance it only on the wallets of the rich.

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