The deficit, which was $290 billion when I took office, has dropped all 4 years for the first time in the 20th century and is now going to be $107 billion this year.

I want to balance the budget.

It is important to the security interests of the United States that the aforementioned amount shall be reduced by $247 million.

This budget agreement was a victory for our values and a victory for the American people.

This budget agreement shows what we can do when we work hard on things that really matter to the American people.

I'm determined to keep going until we balance the budget and do it in the right way.

I herewith report three new deferrals and one revised deferral, totaling $3.6 billion.

I think balancing the budget is an important part of it.

That will give you $21 million to deal with the roads.

My Administration has already cut the budget deficit nearly in half.

The first thing we need to do now is to finish the work of balancing the budget.

I want the Governors now to work with us to balance this budget.

We do have to finish the job and balance the budget; the question is how.

We can balance the budget.

I am for balancing the budget in 7 years, but I want to protect the fundamental priorities of the American people.

I want to compliment the Senate on voting to reopen the Government today for the next several days while we attempt to finalize this.

Let's resolve that we will balance the budget, but that we'll do it in a way that will keep our country growing and that will be true to our basic values.

By forcing such an unwarranted deployment decision now, the bill would waste tens of billions of dollars.