Administration Quote by Bobby Scott

When George Bush came into office, we had surpluses. And now we have half-a-trillion-dollar deficit annually. When George Bush came into office, our national…

— Barack Obama

There's one big difference between me and the others - I won't take every last dime of the surplus and spend it on tax…

— John McCain

Just a few short years ago in the year 2000, the last full fiscal year of the Clinton administration, this country was running a…

— John Spratt

The fact is that a lot of the spending increases came during the Bush administration. Two unpaid for wars we got ourselves engaged in.…

— Nancy Pelosi

In addition to myself and a number of others, President Clinton talked about the deficit and the debt issue. And he pointed out, really,…

— Chris Van Hollen

When my husband was president, we went from a $300 billion deficit to a $200 billion surplus and we were actually on the path…

— Hillary Clinton

The deficit only became a big problem in the Reagan-Bush years. For 12 years, Republican presidents talked about balancing the budget, but failed to…

— Dick Gephardt

As a matter of fact, if you do not take into account, as Congressman Ross just stated, the Social Security surplus, our fiscal deficit,…

— Jim Costa

The President's budget pays for only six months of the war in Iraq and completely overlooks the transition costs of Social Security reform. The…

— Jim Cooper

I don't want to remember 2005 as a year that the government heaped unnecessary burdens upon American families. Stealing from the poor and middle…

— Marty Meehan

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

The trade deficit is the capital surplus and don't ever think of having a capital surplus as being a bad thing for our country.

— Arthur Laffer