Debt Quote by Barack Obama

When President Bush left office, the deficit was approximately $500 billion. It is now approximately now $1.5 trillion. In other words, President Obama has…

— Tim Pawlenty

We have, during his regime, during President Obama's regime, we've doubled our national debt. We're up to $20 trillion.

— Donald Trump

It took the first 204 years of our Nation's history to accumulate $1 trillion in debt. And now we are doing that every 2 or 3 years.

— Jim Cooper

We don't have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven't taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much.

— Ronald Reagan

When I walked into the Oval Office, I had more than a trillion-dollar deficit greeting me. And we know where it came from: two…

— Barack Obama

Meanwhile, the U.S. debt remains, as it has been since 1790, a war debt; the United States continues to spend more on its military…

— David Graeber

It's the [George Bush] president's fiscal policies that have driven up the biggest deficits in American history. He's added more debt to the debt…

— John F. Kerry

President Obama has almost doubled our national debt to more than $19 trillion, and growing. And yet, what do we have to show for…

— Donald Trump

We had a $10 billion budget deficit when we got here in January of 2003. We cut that budget deficit; we did not raise…

— Rick Perry

During the 2016 presidential campaign, candidate Donald Trump pledged to eliminate our national debt 'over a period of eight years.' Now two years into…

— Seth Moulton

When this president was sworn into office, he was handed a deficit of over a trillion dollars. Republicans were in control of Congress for…

— Jay Carney

Ultimately, we can't just keep doubling our national debt every eight years. We have got to get that under control and not spend more…

— Ron Estes