Deficit Quotes

380 Deficit quotes by 257 unique authors

Our platform calls for a balanced deficit reduction plan where the wealthy pay their fair share. And when your country is in a costly war,… — Cory Booker
If there's a severe recession, the automatic stabilizers will come into effect, and we will still try to reduce the structural deficit, but we will… — Franklin Raines
Like our finances, humankind is living with a growing ecological deficit but the solution is different. The deficit will worsen with dangerous consequences unless we… — Phil Harding
Conservatives were brought up to hate deficits and justifiably so. We've long thought there are two things in Washington that are unbalanced - the budget… — Ronald Reagan
When you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it. — Viola Davis
This Constitution does not reflect the thoughts, hopes and aspirations of ordinary people. It does nothing for jobs or economic growth and widens further still… — Nigel Farage
The public has no idea that the deficit has been falling like a stone. — Paul Krugman
Comic books are what novels used to be - an accessible, vernacular form with mass appeal - and if the highbrows are right, they're a… — Charles McGrath
So long as freedom from hunger is only half achieved, so long as two thirds of the nations have food deficits, no citizen, no nation… — John F. Kennedy
If you took every single penny that Warren Buffett has, it'd pay for 4-1/2 days of the US government. This tax-the-rich won't work. The problem… — Mark Steyn
Higher taxes never reduce the deficit. Governments spend whatever they take in and then whatever they can get away with. — Milton Friedman
You cannot cut your way to deficit reduction. — Nancy Pelosi
Today I am pledging to cut the deficit we inherited in half by the end of my first term in office. — Barack Obama
I voted for the Deficit Reduction Package with significant heartburn over the student aid provisions. — Bob Inglis
There is no deficit in human resources; the deficit is in human will. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
In special education, there's too much emphasis placed on the deficit and not enough on the strength. — Temple Grandin
Recently the country has seen too much of our legislators, seeing them as a gaggle of check-kiting, judge-smearing deadbeats who don't pay their restaurant bills… — George Will
We have a deficit of wonder right now. — Tom Waits
No industry or country can reach its full potential until women reach their full potential. This is especially true of science and technology, where women… — Sheryl Sandberg
Those who can't imagine change reveal the deficits of their imaginations, not the difficulty of change. — Nelson Mandela
To reverse the trend and reduce the role of government in our lives, and thus alleviate the government deficit and inflation pressures, is a giant… — Hans F. Sennholz
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… — Barack Obama
One of the issues that we professional newspaper columnists are required by union regulations to voice grave concern about is the federal budget deficit, which… — Dave Barry
All those trucks and barges that carry our goods to port are vital connections to the only force which can balance our trade deficit: export.… — Jo Ann Emerson
I've got a chart here that shows our debt-to-GDP ratio. And while we did run deficits in the past, we now number our debt in… — Mark Kirk

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