Billions Quote by Barack Obama

The important lesson of the deficit is - and the national debt - is we have to be careful about how we're spending money.

— Joseph Stiglitz

We are not spending the Federal Government's money, we are spending the taxpayer's money, and it must be spent n a way which guarantees…

— Richard M. Nixon

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

— Henry Paulson

I think we all know the budgetary environment we live in. We all know the troubling future for federal deficits. They should pay for…

— Douglas Holtz-Eakin

I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself.

— Ronald Reagan

What's hurting the U.S. economy is total government spending. The deficit is an indicator that the government is spending so much money that it…

— Grover Norquist

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

Trillions of dollars are being spent in the name of 'saving' the economy: bailouts, 'stimulus,' omnibus spending bills, budgets, government takeovers of the auto,…

— Monica Crowley

Why am I interested in deficits? The only way you balance the budget in this country long-term is through sustained economic growth. And that's…

— Mick Mulvaney

Understanding that yes, we are committing more resources than we thought we might be in protecting our homeland and prosecuting a war and so…

— Donald Evans

Bad spending, to me, in terms of its economic benefit, would be wealth transfer payments. It's a misallocation of resources.

— Mick Mulvaney

When you look at February's (2011) deficit spending alone, and the fact that it was larger than what our total deficit spending was in…

— Kristi Noem