These cuts to spending, however, would save only about half of the money needed to balance the budget in 2013.

Together, they would more than cover the aid the Mayor has already said he needs to balance next year's budget.

So I think we need to balance both these things.

"But we need to balance the needs of law enforcement with Americans' rights to privacy."

"We need to balance the growth and strengthen our tax base, too."

Much of the $882 million needed to balance the budget would be made up by taxes.

The financial system may collapse as all the numbers they need to balance it would not add up.

Again you need to balance this against your age and life expectancy.

But we need to balance uncertain future benefits against certain costs today.

"But they need to balance that with people paying hard dollars."