It's important to balance the budget to lift the burden of debt from future generations.

But we have to balance the budget in a way that reflects our most fundamental values: increasing opportunity; asking everyone to assume responsibility; strengthening our families and the economy; and recognizing the duty we owe to each other.

I am eager to work with the Congress to reach agreement on a balanced budget plan.

We don't have to hurt our children to balance the budget.

That's why I have said repeatedly I think it is a mistake to balance the budget if we cut education or if we harm the health care system or undermine the environment or weaken law enforcement or raise taxes on working families.

My goal is to ultimately come out with a budget which satisfies their stated principles, which I have embraced, but which honors my stated principles, which they have yet to embrace.

I think we ought to balance the budget, secure Medicare, and I'm not opposed to a tax cut if it's properly targeted.

This Act provides $13.4 billion in discretionary budget authority for programs of the Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration.

If this budget reconciliation legislation were sent to the President in its current form, he would veto it.

The deficit in fiscal year '95 is $164 billion, cut almost in half in just 3 years.

This is not about balancing the budget.

We can balance the budget without turning our backs on these young people.

We can balance the budget in a credible way, in a short time.

The most troublesome aspect of this proposal is that FY 1996 funding for the components of the account would be set according to a rigid formula that would not provide flexibility to respond to changing needs.

Let us not pretend for a moment that it is necessary to do what is being done either to balance the budget or to save the Trust Fund.

We ought to pass a budget this time that will bring our books into balance by a date certain.

The President's budget proposes to reduce discretionary spending for FY 1996 by $5 billion in outlays below the FY 1995 enacted level.

I am for balancing the budget.