We have deficits with everybody. Who do we have a positive…

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

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

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

Our fiat currency is under increasing stress with our large and growing trade deficits. We have a federal deficit that is calculated in the…

— George Noory

Obama did inherit a deficit when he came into office. Why this fact justifies racking up vastly more debt and bigger deficits is a…

— Jonah Goldberg

[Deficits are] a yawner. We, as Republicans, have talked about deficits and balanced budgets since the days of Roosevelt, and the people simply haven't…

— Paul Laxalt

Anything that's done to address unemployment in terms of massive stimulus spending is going to exacerbate deficits. And anything that's done to address deficits…

— Indra Nooyi

Deficits do not in themselves produce inflation, nor does a balanced budget assure a stable price level.

— William Vickrey

Thanks to decades of accumulated federal budget deficits and, more significantly, imprudent Medicare and Social Security policies, we've stolen almost $60 trillion from our children.

— Steven Rattner

The social and racial conflict, which springs from the redistribution ideology, may deepen as economic output is shrinking and transfer 'entitlements cause budget deficits…

— Hans F. Sennholz

Reagan proved that deficits don't matter.

— Dick Cheney

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

Once you run current-account deficits, you depend on the kindness of strangers. This might be the beginning of the end of the American empire.

— Nouriel Roubini