Cutting Quote by Alan Greenspan

I know economists will say well, we could run a small deficit but the problem is that once you cross that line as we…

— Stephen Harper

The way to reduce the deficit is to create jobs and work opportunities so that people will have money with which to pay taxes.

— Danny K. Davis

The best way to deal with the deficit is through economic growth.

— Tim Kaine

The American people will eventually get hurt by this accumulated deficit. That's the problem. We have too much deficit. We have to find a…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

When the economy is growing, there's a lot that can be done to deal with the deficit.

— Henry Paulson

While there are no easy solutions to this problem, the Deficit Reduction Act gets us started in the right direction by beginning with the…

— Jim Ryun

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

— Phil Bredesen

The harsh reality is that we simply cannot tax our way out of our overspending and debt problem. We need a balanced approach that…

— Kevin Brady

Well, mathematically, there are three ways that you can cut a deficit. One, of course, is to raise taxes. Number two is to cut…

— Mitt Romney

In order to reduce the deficit, there has to be revenue in addition to cuts.

— Jim Lehrer

The federal budget deficit isn't the nation's major economic problem and deficit reduction shouldn't be our major goal. Our problem is lack of good…

— Robert Reich

It seems to me that instead of cutting taxes, we ought to be increasing the taxes to pay off the deficit, rather than let…

— Walter Cronkite