I think we ought to always opt for competition.

I feel confident that if we could get the deficit cut in half and then get rid of it, that we would lower the structure of interest rates.

We have a moral obligation to do that, and it also will help to keep the economy growing.

We ought to continue to pay this debt down, to keep the economy going.

The surplus in the first 4 months of this fiscal year was $25 billion larger than the surplus last year.

We have enjoyed back-to-back budget surpluses for the first time in over 40 years.

Our economic strategy of fiscal discipline is working.

If we maintain our strategy of fiscal discipline, we can keep our economy strong and pay down the debt by 2013 for the first time since Andrew Jackson was President.

The country, in general, is in the best shape perhaps it's ever been.

I think the United States should help to bring empowerment opportunities of education and health care and the economy to poor village people.

That amounts to a tax cut and lower mortgage payments of $2,000 a year to the average family.

We have to create a conducive environment for business to thrive.

When I came into office, the deficit was $290 billion.

This country now has the longest peacetime expansion in history.

Given the urgent need to get the pay increase out and to begin the modernization programs, it was the right thing to do.

In 15 years this country will be out of debt for the first time since 1835, when Andrew Jackson was President of the United States.

it will strengthen the economy and help consumers, communities, and businesses across America.

We have this huge surplus.