Having a trade deficit and a budget deficit, it's two different things. — Stephanie Ruhle Copy Share Image
The public has no idea that the deficit has been falling like a stone. — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Governments harangue about deficits to get more revenue so they can spend more. — Allan H. Meltzer Copy Share Image
A wisdom deficit - fewer elders and even fewer people who listen to them. — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
The poor have been sent to the front lines of a federal budget deficit reduction war that few other groups were drafted… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
President Obama inherited a one trillion dollar deficit courtesy of George Bush and turned it into a three trillion dollar deficit courtesy… — Michael Savage Copy Share Image
America knows it has got to deal with its deficit problems so that it, too, can promise it is making its proper… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
The trade deficit is the capital surplus and don't ever think of having a capital surplus as being a bad thing for… — Arthur Laffer Copy Share Image
For the first time in 15 years, Georgia this winter has its electric power guaranteed without deficit. This is a historic achievement. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If investors are willing to fund the U.S. deficit, why wouldn't investors want to fund the press freedom deficit? — Sasa Vucinic Copy Share Image
The American people will eventually get hurt by this accumulated deficit. That's the problem. We have too much deficit. We have to… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
[T]he only way to shrink the trade deficit is for the government to prohibit us from buying whatever we want. — John Stossel Copy Share Image
That the policies - from energy to labor policies, trade policies, government policies relating to debt and deficits are all aligning in… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
While Donald Trump said, well, our plan won't be exactly like the House Republican plan, the closer it is to that plan,… — Avik Roy Copy Share Image
If a trade deficit is determined solely by rates of savings and investment, then the U.S. trade deficit will be impervious to… — Daniel T. Griswold Copy Share Image
As the U.S. did during the Space Race, we must invest in our businesses and intellect to ensure America leads the clean… — Paul Tonko Copy Share Image
As a matter of fact, if you do not take into account, as Congressman Ross just stated, the Social Security surplus, our… — Jim Costa Copy Share Image
I think it's very important not to confuse the importance of dealing with Social Security in the long term with these short-term… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
While there are no easy solutions to this problem, the Deficit Reduction Act gets us started in the right direction by beginning… — Jim Ryun Copy Share Image
To avoid large and unsustainable budget deficits, the nation will ultimately have to choose among higher taxes, modifications to entitlement programs such… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
Welfarism and excessive spending and deficits and socialism divide us, because everybody has to go to Washington. Those who have the biggest… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
I supported the Korean Trade Agreement in 2011. They promised - when it was signed, President [Barak] Obama said it would increase… — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
The Tea Party movement is we the people who have been taxed enough already. I think that folks forget that this is… — Sharron Angle Copy Share Image
When Congress votes for all sorts of benefits, without voting for enough taxes to pay for them, they get the support of… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
This nation is on a course where if we don't do something about it, get federal situation, the fiscal policy [under control],… — Judd Gregg Copy Share Image
Often low-income parents give their children every other thing they need for successful participation in school and the world of work except… — James P. Comer Copy Share Image
Because of the oil-and-water relationship governments have cultivated between ethics and political economy, speaking in plain terms - spelling it out as… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
If you wanted to create jobs in a way that has minimal effect on the deficit but has government action, the two… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
We want to make sure that tax reform doesn't increase the size of the deficit. — Steve Mnuchin Copy Share Image
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