Deficits Quotes

101 Deficits quotes by 82 unique authors

Through the practice of yoga, you come to feel confident and develop a feeling of wholeness and completeness; you are not likely to feel deprived… — Sharon Gannon
Deficits, as I've often said, aren't caused by too little taxing, they're caused by too much spending. Presidents can't appropriate a dollar of tax payers… — Ronald Reagan
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
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
Those who can't imagine change reveal the deficits of their imaginations, not the difficulty of change. — Nelson Mandela
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
We developed during the 1990s a series of budget process rules that helped us bring to heel these deficits, diminishing every year and moving the… — John Spratt
Looking at the high cost of occupation in Iraq and the needs we have in this country, would it not have been better to have… — Timothy J. Russert
If the Nation is living within its income, its credit is good. If, in some crises, it lives beyond its income for a year or… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
It is day after day in this institution, borrow money, run up the debt, run up the deficits and then with a straight face say,… — Richard Neal
Well, I think what we need to remember is that budget deficits can impede economic activity. — Peter R. Orszag
I served at a time when we had a strong economy, when we had deficits that we would die for today. I was able to… — Rob Portman
Thanks to decades of accumulated federal budget deficits and, more significantly, imprudent Medicare and Social Security policies, we've stolen almost $60 trillion from our children. — Steven Rattner
Traditionally, the way deficits have been cut is you hold expenditures more or less constant in real dollars and then let growth come in to… — Phil Bredesen
Unfortunately the Republican tax cut will deny important revenues to many states facing their own deficits. This will create greater pressure for higher state and… — Dick Durbin
Obama did inherit a deficit when he came into office. Why this fact justifies racking up vastly more debt and bigger deficits is a logical… — Jonah Goldberg
Our priority must be to build a path towards balancing the budget, and we cannot tolerate growing deficits. — Michael Dean Crapo
The world is likely to view any temporary extension of the income tax cuts for the top two percent as a prelude to a long-term… — Timothy Geithner
I'm a fiscal hawk. I vote against all taxes, but I do believe the environment, and climate change, is a bigger issue than fiscal deficits… — Vinod Khosla
Near-term deficits are temporary and manageable if - and only if - we keep spending in check, the tax burden low and the economy growing. — Jim Nussle
Back in those days, in the fifties and sixties, countries had balance of payment's deficits or surpluses, those were reflected much more than today in… — Robert C. Solomon
We're focused on doing the things that make the economy perform well, and as you do that, reduce deficits, for one, very important; secondly, keep… — John W. Snow
The farmer and the farm, like "the environment," are looked upon, for example, as means to offset trade deficits. The farm is a place where… — Wes Jackson
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… — Barack Obama
More and more people are becoming aware that government has nothing to give them without first taking it away from somebody else-or from themselves. Increased… — Henry Hazlitt

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