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

There is a difficult leap between talking about balancing the budget and actually doing it.

States should not balance their budgets on the backs of students.

If we didn't propose these reforms, we would not have proposed a budget that got the debt under control.

Budgets are nothing if not statements of priorities.

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

I am a small-government conservative who clings tenaciously and old-fashionedly to the idea that one ought to have balanced budgets.

I was not interested in spending 10 years in the culture wars.

I am not about to let the people who so mismanaged the state budget now try to manage local government.

I don't think we should label budgets even before the budget is presented.