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Spending and tax cut decisions must be both fiscally responsible and fair to our working families. I believe that fiscal responsibility is the way to create prosperity for America and secure the retirement of America's seniors.

What we should be doing is responsibly addressing the primary drivers of our debt and deficit issues.

Health reform is an essential part of restoring America's economy and maintaining our competitiveness.

I will work to restore fiscal responsibility to our country's budget and to provide for a more robust economy.

The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.

What's really important to me is that we have fiscally responsible balanced budgets.

My responsibility as president is to take care to solve the problems we are facing now and to provide a vision and direction for how our nation should advance in the future.

We have a responsibility as a state to protect our most vulnerable citizens: our children, seniors, people with disabilities. That is our moral obligation. But there is an economic justification too - we all pay when the basic needs of our citizens are unmet.

Restore, without delay, the equilibrium between revenue and expenditures, which has done so much to destroy our credit and derange the whole fabric of government. If that should not be done, the government and country will be involved, ere long, in overwhelming difficulties.

We have a responsibility to be responsible stewards of tax dollars.