I am for balancing the budget.

I believe that any new thing that's been done ... is in their mind an easy thing to eliminate if you want to balance the budget.

It is important that we continue to work to balance the budget.

If we don't balance the budget, we're going to hurt America's future.

We can balance the budget and we can do it in the right way and reinventing Government proves it.

By providing increases for defense programs that are neither warranted nor justified, the bill would seriously undermine the President's goal of achieving a balanced budget.

We don't want to weaken our economy by balancing the budget.

I have a good plan to balance the budget.

It is time for Congress to go forward to write a disciplined budget that brings the deficit down.

I remain committed to cutting the deficit further and to moving toward a balanced budget.

We must continue to reduce the deficit and to strengthen our economic security.

Getting the deficit under control was only a beginning.

I believe we were right when we fought to bring this terrible deficit down.

I do not believe we can afford to go back to the days of exploding deficits.

This would undermine the principle that new mandatory spending should be offset by reductions in existing mandatory spending.

Now the deficit's going down, and the economy's coming up.

He proved that Democrats can govern in an austere fiscal climate by cutting spending and without raising taxes.

We have to keep driving the deficit down.