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What's the point of creating a budget if it's not possible to follow through?

Sometimes you have to make tough decisions to hold the line on spending.

This Budget reflects a choice - not an easy choice, but the right choice. And when you think about it, the only choice. The choice to take the responsible, prudent path to fiscal stability, economic growth and opportunity.

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

Any sensible family has a budget that lays out how much will be spent for household and other purposes. Without such planning, things would quickly go awry.

A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.

If we're going to have an unconventional budget, we probably need an unconventional process to get there.

What you don't do, if you're an adult, is decide that you're going to budget things through a sequester. What does that word have to do with budgeting? It's like if you have a family budget and go, 'We really don't know what to take out economically from the budget, so we're going to whack out protein for this week.'

I don't buy into this, 'Oh, poor us. We've got tough budget problems.'