2012 Quote by Barack Obama

I mean, you have said before you'd cut the deficit in half. And this...I love this idea of $4 trillion in cuts. You found…

— Mitt Romney

I want to reduce America's deficit by cutting spending that we don't need but also by asking the wealthy to do a little bit…

— Barack Obama

Weve got to make sure we reduce our deficit. Unfortunately Governor Romneys plan doesnt do it.

— Barack Obama

The way we do it is $2.50 for every cut, we ask for $1 of additional revenue, paid for, as I indicated earlier, by…

— Barack Obama

I think first of all, let me...let me repeat...let me repeat what I said. I'm not in favor of a $5 trillion tax cut.…

— Mitt Romney

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

We may casually talk of all sorts of new programs and 'stimulus,' but the vast trillion-dollar collective national debt and rising annual deficits will…

— Victor Davis Hanson

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

— Jim Lehrer

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

If you're really concerned about deficits, you cannot take seriously a budget that would give $30 billion a year worth of tax cuts to…

— Barack Obama

My approach to cutting spending as president, is to do a ten percent across the board cut of all federal agencies, and then ask…

— Herman Cain