Quote by Barack Obama

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

Let's be clear: deficit reduction alone is not an economic plan.

— Barack Obama

Now, we all know that we've got to do more. And so I've put forward a specific $4 trillion deficit reduction plan. It's on…

— Barack Obama

One of the reasons we don't have our deficit under control is because Republicans are wusses and won't tell their base a simple fact…

— Ed Rendell

What Governor Romney is proposing is an across-the-board cut in marginal tax rates for households, every household in America by 20 percent. And we'll…

— Glenn Hubbard

To reduce deficit spending and our enormous debt, you reign in spending. You cut the budget. You don't take more from the private sector…

— Sarah Palin

While Donald Trump said, well, our plan won't be exactly like the House Republican plan, the closer it is to that plan, the less…

— Avik Roy

It has been obvious all along, to anyone paying attention, that the politicians shouting loudest about deficits are actually using deficit hysteria as a…

— Paul Krugman

We can reduce our deficit, and do it in a much more balanced way than sequestration, simply by fixing our tax code to get…

— Sheldon Whitehouse

Even with not having a balanced budget at this time, I support tax cuts. That will help limit spending.

— Steve Chabot

We have to reduce the burden placed on our economy by years of deficits and debt.

— Anonymous

By restraining spending and by cutting the deficit, Republican policies are helping to keep our economy strong.

— Dennis Hastert