"Balancing your budget is like protecting your..." - Quote by Ronald Reagan

“Let us ask ourselves; "What kind of people do we think we are?"”

“I am not a scientist.”

“Our forbearance should never be misunderstood. Our reluctance for conflict should not be misjudged as a failure of will. When action is required to preserve our national security, we will act.”

“Hurray! Congress is to adjourn! Only four more days of Congressional burglary on the Treasury!”

“Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets.”

“The "Ways & Means Committee" is a committee that's supposed to find the Ways to divide up the Means.”

“Is this money well spent? This is taxpayer money, it is going to be adding to the deficit short term and if we can't justify it, then we're not going to spend tens or hundreds of billions of dollars, just to make somebody happy, if it's not good for the economy.”

“I refuse to accept any approach that isn't balanced. I'm not going to ask students and seniors and middle-class families to pay down the entire deficit while people like me, making over $250,000, aren't asked to pay a dime more in taxes.”

“Our government shouldn't make promises we cannot keep, but we must keep the promises we've already made.”