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

In the state of Michigan, where I served in the state Legislature, there was a lot of shuffling of money between one year and the other to balance the budget.

I've got an extreme bias toward governors... they know what it's like to make hard decisions. They know what it's like to actually balance a budget - have a budget, first of all, and have a balanced budget.

Every family in America knows they have to do a budget. Every small business in America knows they have to do a budget. Every local government, every state, knows they have to do a budget.

I am a governor who left office with a smaller general fund budget than when we started.

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.

Every budget I have ever prepared has been balanced.

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

We can't have deficit spending in Texas. You have to balance your budget every two years.

The budget doesn't have much control over the government. Then again, the government doesn't have much control over the budget.