Deficit Quote by Alan Greenspan

The deficit is the symptom, but spending is the disease.

— Jeb Hensarling

We're actually just moving one type of deficit to another. But, the problem with this second type of deficit is that you drive on…

— Ezra Klein

Chronic deficits drastically reduce government's ability to make those infrastructure investments that business needs to grow and create jobs.

— Anonymous

Our balanced budget has an important psychological function. It is a signal that we can't continue to constantly take on debt.

— Wolfgang Schauble

Deficits are like putting dynamite in the hands of children. They can get out of control very quickly.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Health can be squandered, but not stored up.

— Mason Cooley

Many of our troubles are chronic. Life is chronic.

— James Hillman

[Avoid] likewise the accumulation of debt.

— George Washington

“The problem is that the payoff or instant gratification derived from bad habits often far outweighs what’s going on in your rational mind concerning…

— Darren Hardy

“It turns out that for most people who have chronic diseases with deferred consequences, "improve my financial health" is a much more pervasively experienced…

— Clayton M. Christensen

We have been maintaining a standard of living by putting things on the debt of the next generation.

— Richard Lamm

When people who earn more than the average have their 'surplus', or the greater part of it, seized from them in taxes, and when…

— Henry Hazlitt