Coming out Quote by Allen West

This debt crisis coming to our country. The wall and tidal wave of debt that is befalling our nation. Medicare and Social Security go…

— Paul Ryan

When the economy's shrinking, providing jobs, spending on things like infrastructure can actually increase revenue and drive down debt. And then, there's going to…

— Barack Obama

Deficits and debt threaten the growing American economy and our national security over the long term.

— Cindy Hyde-Smith

President Obama's reelection started the countdown for lawmakers to address the fiscal cliff and the statutory debt limit. Unless the President and House Republicans…

— Mark Zandi

During the next four years...unless drastic steps are taken by Congress, the U.S. will have nearly 8,000,000 unemployed and will stand on the brink…

— Henry A. Wallace

I say after eight years of this Administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started. … And an enormous debt to boot!

— Henry Morgenthau, Jr

The interest on our debt is going to collapse this country.

— Ted Yoho

Obviously, there has to be a profound change in direction. Otherwise, interest on the national debt will start eating up virtually every penny that…

— Bobby Scott

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

— Henry Paulson

Cold-turkey deficit reduction would cause a significant recession. A recent analysis by the Congressional Budget Office estimated that going headlong over the cliff would…

— Christina Romer

You've been president four years. You said you'd cut the deficit in half. It's now four years later. We still have trillion-dollar deficits. The…

— Mitt Romney

So when folks talk about the deficit and leaving the deficit for our children, we will never get out of debt had this country…

— Debbie Stabenow