Deficit Quotes · Page 15

That's what the Romney plan is all about, how to get jobs created, how to get this debt and deficit under control,…

— Paul Ryan

Traditionally, the way deficits have been cut is you hold expenditures more or less constant in real dollars and then let growth…

— Phil Bredesen

Looking at the high cost of occupation in Iraq and the needs we have in this country, would it not have been…

— Anonymous

As a senator, I worried every day about the size of the federal deficit. I did not spend a single minute worrying…

— John C. Danforth

In my view, [the trade deficit] will create political turmoil at some point...Pretty soon, I think there will be a big adjustment.

— Warren Buffett

When Mr. Obama entered office, he said all the right things about getting Washington spending under control. He even promised to cut…

— Pete Hegseth

As the nature deficit grows, another emerging body of scientific evidence indicates that direct exposure to nature is essential for physical and…

— Richard Louv

The Republican party must break with its long-established instinct for caution and make a bold stand for first principles of freedom and…

— Tony Blankley

Unlike the federal government, most states don't have the option of running a deficit.

— Marcia Angell

Tonight was a great opportunity to take on the political status quo that has given us trillion dollar deficits and put millions…

— Gary Johnson

After a decade of profligacy, the American people are tired of politicians who talk the talk but don't walk the walk when…

— Barack Obama

I would say that it's a lot easier, especially if you have a bit of an attention deficit disorder, to be on…

— Majandra Delfino

If we do our deficit spending on weapons, at least we get weapons. Then if we need weapons, we have them. If…

— P. J. O'Rourke

You want a better world...? Legalize pot right now. ...end the deficit? Legalize pot right now...biggest cash crop in America.

— Bill Hicks

Deficits must be cut, yes, but the rush to austerity risks undermining the fragile global recovery.

— Alistair Darling

It's the media that take an isolated incident and make it a deciding factor in a presidential campaign, as opposed to the…

— Rob Lowe

The goal is to reduce the size and scope of government spending, not to focus on the deficit. The deficit is the…

— Grover Norquist

One thing everyone seems to agree on is that Republicans face a perceived compassion deficit.

— Gary Bauer

The United States has a huge budget deficit so taxes are going to have to go up and I certainly agree they…

— Bill Gates

A hundred welfare programs, spending more and more billions, lead to chronic budget deficits, which lead to increased paper-money issues, which lead…

— Henry Hazlitt

The president elect [Donald Trump] says that will lead to more investment and growth. Skeptics say the tax plan would explode deficits.

— Kelly McEvers

The unjustified swelling of the budgetary deficit and the accumulation of public debts are just as destructive as adventurous stock-jobbing.

— Vladimir Putin

Why should there be hunger and deprivation in any land, in any city, at any table, when man has the resources and…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

So if the euro, if Euroland is to become a reserve center, if the euro is to become a reserve currency, Euroland…

— Robert C. Solomon

The abandonment of the gold standard made it possible for the welfare statists to use the banking system as a means to…

— Alan Greenspan