"You can't get to a balanced budget and begin to pay down debt and thus create jobs in this country if you don't have specific plans to make it work."

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People ask how I can be a conservative and still want higher taxes. It makes my head spin, and I guess it shows how old I am. But I thought that conservatives were supposed to like balanced budgets. I thought it was the conservative position to not leave heavy indebtedness to our grandchildren.

— Ben Stein