Cutting budget deficits can never be just an exercise in economics. — George Osborne 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
Well, I think what we need to remember is that budget deficits can impede economic activity. — Anonymous 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
Slow growth and inflation have a tendency to accompany large deficits and increasing debt as a percentage of GDP. — Bill Gross Copy Share Image
“By the deficits we may know the talents, by the exceptions we may know the rules, by studying patholgoy we may construct… — Laurence Miller 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
Today, we have a trade regime which has led to the largest trade deficits this country has ever experienced. — Xavier Becerra Copy Share Image
Deficits are anathema to most Republicans. And Democrats widely believe that government spending should fall as the economy recovers. — Annie Lowrey Copy Share Image
Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government… — Richard Lamm Copy Share Image
When there's downward pressure on growth, one choice is to adjust economic policy, increase deficits, relax monetary policy. That might have a… — Li Keqiang Copy Share Image
ObamaCare is a massive budget buster, that it is creating massive deficits in the future. And I really believe it's going to… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
Deficits mean future tax increases, pure and simple. Deficit spending should be viewed as a tax on future generations, and politicians who… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
It is past time for Republican leadership to answer for record deficits and reckless spending, both in Iraq and in the U.S.… — Sherrod Brown Copy Share Image
The tea party movement and its passion arose in response to trillion dollar deficits as far as the eye can see and… — Ari Fleischer Copy Share Image
Understanding that yes, we are committing more resources than we thought we might be in protecting our homeland and prosecuting a war… — Donald Evans 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
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
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
Budget deficits are not caused by wild-eyed spenders, but by slow economic growth and periodic recessions. And any new recession would break… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Trade deficits are OK under certain circumstance. 1. An emerging nation imports capital goods necessary to enhance its productivity. 2. A developed… — Peter Schiff Copy Share Image
When done right - or wrong, depending on how you look at it - deficits remove liberal options from the table. Suddenly… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
At the outset of the creation of the euro in 1999, it was expected that the southern eurozone economies would behave like… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
We are in a bit of a policy box and it's going to require us being willing to give up one of… — Indra Nooyi Copy Share Image
I think that the difficult thing is for the president to answer to his economic record with the failed stimulus, higher health… — Kelly Ayotte Copy Share Image
“These are tough times for state governments. Huge deficits loom almost everywhere, from California to New York, from New Jersey to Texas.… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
With its record spending and deficits, the Obama administration has shown little interest in taking fiscal responsibility. That is a mistake. — Cathy McMorris Rodgers Copy Share Image
Our priority must be to build a path towards balancing the budget, and we cannot tolerate growing deficits. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Deficits are like putting dynamite in the hands of children. They can get out of control very quickly. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Near-term deficits are temporary and manageable if - and only if - we keep spending in check, the tax burden low and… — Jim Nussle 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
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
