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- Independent economists say immigration reform will grow our economy and shrink our deficits by almost $1 trillion in the next two decades. And for good…
- 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 debt…
- What we also have to recognize is that the deficit levels that I'm inheriting, over a trillion dollars, coming out of last year, that that…
- Is this money well spent? This is taxpayer money, it is going to be adding to the deficit short term and if we can't justify…
- The biggest deficit that we have in our society and in the world right now is an empathy deficit. We are in great need of…
- The world doesn't just revolve around you. There's a lot of talk in this country about the federal deficit. But I think we should talk…
- What is the empathy deficit? The inability of people to stand in other folks shoes. It's hard to empathize with people who have different values…
- I refuse to accept any approach that isn't balanced. I'm not going to ask students and seniors and middle-class families to pay down the entire…
- Today I am pledging to cut the deficit we inherited in half by the end of my first term in office.
- As soon as the recovery is well under way, we need to set up a long-term plan to reduce the structural deficit and make sure…
- 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 not…
- Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you…
- No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can…
- I want to be very clear: I will not sign on to any health plan that adds to our deficits over the next decade.
- And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it's going…
- I dont believe that another round of tax breaks for millionaires will bring good jobs to our shores, or pay down our deficit.
- Im asking you to rally around a set of goals for your country, goals in manufacturing, energy, education, national security & the deficit.
- So all of this is possible. Now, in order for us to do it, we do have to close our deficit, and one of the…
- This is where there's a difference, because Governor Romney's central economic plan calls for a $5 trillion tax cut, on top of the extension of…
- That's why independent studies looking at this said the only way to meet Governor Romney's pledge of not reducing the deficit or...or...or not adding to…
- The fact is that if you are lowering the rates the way you described, Governor, then it is not possible to come up with enough…
- I have said that for incomes over $250,000 a year, that we should go back to the rates that we had when Bill Clinton was…
- The reason this is important is because by doing that, we cannot only reduce the deficit, we cannot only encourage job growth through small businesses,…
- That kind of approach, I believe, will not grow our economy, because the only way to pay for it without either burdening the middle class…
- Bill Clinton tried the approach that I'm talking about. We created 23 million new jobs. We went from deficit to surplus. And businesses did very…
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- One thing everyone seems to agree on is that Republicans face a perceived compassion deficit. — Gary Bauer
- Obama and the Democrats' preposterous argument is that we are just one more big tax increase away from solving our economic problems.… — Bob Beauprez
- We've used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we're running a federal deficit that's… — Warren Buffett
- It is vital that we get these policies right as we take forward our plans to drive down the deficit and transform… — David Cameron
- Reagan proved deficits don't matter. — Dick Cheney
- One of the reasons the deficit got as big as it did, frankly, was because of the economic slowdown, the fall-off in… — Dick Cheney
- The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce… — Noam Chomsky
- I said we are going to balance an $11 billion budget deficit in a $29 billion budget, so by percentage, the largest… — Chris Christie
- Children from like 8 and even up to the college age - Spider-Man appeals to a fairly broad demographic but, like I… — Thomas Haden Church
- When you think about it, attention-deficit order makes a lot of sense. In this country there isn't a lot worth paying attention… — George Carlin
- Independent economists say immigration reform will grow our economy and shrink our deficits by almost $1 trillion in the next two decades.… — Barack Obama
- Democrats were quick to point out that President Bush's budget creates a 1 trillion dollar deficit. The White House quickly responded with… — Craig Kilborn