I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be…

Chronic deficits drastically reduce government's ability to make those infrastructure investments that business needs to grow and create jobs.

— Anonymous

What works for Germany can't work for the rest of Europe: No country can run a chronic surplus without others running deficits.

— George Soros

We developed during the 1990s a series of budget process rules that helped us bring to heel these deficits, diminishing every year and moving…

— John Spratt

At any moment there is certainly not balanced trade between the various areas of the habitable globe that happens to be under seperate national…

— Joan Robinson

You can't blame the administration and the Republicans for taking us back to deficits, for spending the Social Security surplus and assaulting the environment.…

— William J. Clinton

At the outset of the creation of the euro in 1999, it was expected that the southern eurozone economies would behave like those in…

— Alan Greenspan

I stated that I'm a libertarian Republican, which means I believe in a series of issues, such as smaller government, constraint on budget deficits,…

— Alan Greenspan

The tea party movement and its passion arose in response to trillion dollar deficits as far as the eye can see and out of…

— Ari Fleischer

When we run these big trade deficits and send our jobs offshore, we hold our wages down and our income down. That feeds right…

— Peter Navarro

Deficits. Most people of knowledge say it's the biggest single problem facing the economic free world.

— David Hartman

The truth of the matter is that countries the world over have deficits. Let us remember this about Scotland's deficit: it was not created…

— Nicola Sturgeon

Yes, deficits are a problem. I've been saying so for more than a quarter of a century now. But the problem is not the…

— Ronald Reagan

It seems to me there are good deficits and bad deficits. Now, we have a deficit that comes from the militarization of our society…

— Anonymous

To avoid large and unsustainable budget deficits, the nation will ultimately have to choose among higher taxes, modifications to entitlement programs such as Social…

— Ben Bernanke

We must create wealth and we must cut our deficits.

— Manuel Valls