Cutting budget deficits can never be just an exercise in economics. — George Osborne Copy Share Image
Governments harangue about deficits to get more revenue so they can spend more. — Allan H. Meltzer Copy Share Image
We have to reduce the burden placed on our economy by years of deficits and debt. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Once you run current-account deficits, you depend on the kindness of strangers. This might be the beginning of the end of the… — Nouriel Roubini Copy Share Image
Deficits must be cut, yes, but the rush to austerity risks undermining the fragile global recovery. — Alistair Darling Copy Share Image
Obama did inherit a deficit when he came into office. Why this fact justifies racking up vastly more debt and bigger deficits… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
Deficits and debt threaten the growing American economy and our national security over the long term. — Cindy Hyde-Smith Copy Share Image
Traditionally, the way deficits have been cut is you hold expenditures more or less constant in real dollars and then let growth… — Phil Bredesen Copy Share Image
I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
I keep telling people I want to close the deficit, and one of the deficits is want to close is the fun… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
“If you want more from life — start by counting your blessings instead of counting your losses, deficits and wants.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
There are several silver linings on the horizon. The current account deficits in Spain and Portugal are declining because they have become… — Wolfgang Schauble Copy Share Image
I think it's absolutely clear that the fiscal path we are on is not sustainable, and for me, the best analogy is… — Erskine Bowles Copy Share Image
For the last 4 years, our Federal Government has produced the four biggest deficits in history, and the estimated 2006 deficit of… — Melissa Bean Copy Share Image
When we run these big trade deficits and send our jobs offshore, we hold our wages down and our income down. That… — Peter Navarro Copy Share Image
I think that's what activates the Tea Party Movement. What they see is the government interfering with their lives and with the… — Sharron Angle Copy Share Image
The social and racial conflict, which springs from the redistribution ideology, may deepen as economic output is shrinking and transfer 'entitlements cause… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
We developed during the 1990s a series of budget process rules that helped us bring to heel these deficits, diminishing every year… — John Spratt Copy Share Image
I've, we have in this state, like many other states, we're experiencing an enormous budget deficit that we're trying to grapple with.… — Jennifer Granholm Copy Share Image
Under President Obama, we have spent more money - he has spent more money than any other president in this history, actually,… — Cathy McMorris Rodgers Copy Share Image
We cannot win the future, expand the economy and spur job creation if we are saddled with increasingly growing deficits. That is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Slow growth and inflation have a tendency to accompany large deficits and increasing debt as a percentage of GDP. — Bill Gross Copy Share Image
Well, I think what we need to remember is that budget deficits can impede economic activity. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Today, we have a trade regime which has led to the largest trade deficits this country has ever experienced. — Xavier Becerra Copy Share Image
You've got to analyze and figure out where your deficits are and go to work on them, and then sometimes, it's how… — Denny Hamlin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I have spoken about deficits, and I think deficits are important because they address broad economic and financial stability. We need to… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
I want to be very clear: I will not sign on to any health plan that adds to our deficits over the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Republicans profess to be against deficits, but they are experts at creating and exacerbating deficits. — Keith Ellison Copy Share Image
A lot of people say, 'Why do health-care reform when the deficits are so big?' But that is when we've got to… — Mike Ross Copy Share Image
Argentina has suffered from an overdose of deficits, money-printing and useless regulations. All that needs to go. — Javier Milei Copy Share Image
Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Bush may be a strong leader in the war on terrorism, but on budget deficits he is missing-in-action. — Jim Cooper Copy Share Image
Brain tumor survivors: don't become hopelessly discouraged if you are experiencing deficits. You in a war and you are bound to have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
While deficits are often inflationary and always pernicious, curing them by raising taxes is equivalent to curing an illness by shooting the… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Chronic deficits drastically reduce government's ability to make those infrastructure investments that business needs to grow and create jobs. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Deficits. Most people of knowledge say it's the biggest single problem facing the economic free world. — David Hartman Copy Share Image
