Deficits Quotes

101 Deficits quotes by 82 unique authors

The U.S. has been living in a situation of excesses for too long. Consumers were out spending more than their income and the country was… — Nouriel Roubini
Once you run current-account deficits, you depend on the kindness of strangers. This might be the beginning of the end of the American empire. — Nouriel Roubini
Republicans profess to be against deficits, but they are experts at creating and exacerbating deficits. — Keith Ellison
When I work with countries struggling to pay for budgets or finance trade deficits, I reflect on how Americans do not spend a moment considering… — Robert Zoellick
To finance deficits, the government must sell bonds to investors, competing for capital that could otherwise be used to invest in stocks or corporate bonds.… — Alex Berenson
I formed my own studio, carried my own deficits, owned one-hundred percent of my negatives, and made a lot of mistakes, but we ended up… — Stephen J. Cannell
While we clearly need health-care reform, the last thing our country needs is a massive new health-care entitlement that will create hundreds of billions of… — John Mackey
But if they want to really think about the fiscal future of this country, then think about how we have moved from hundreds of billions… — Chaka Fattah
For the last 4 years, our Federal Government has produced the four biggest deficits in history, and the estimated 2006 deficit of $423 billion is… — Melissa Bean
Today, we have a trade regime which has led to the largest trade deficits this country has ever experienced. — Xavier Becerra
The tea party movement and its passion arose in response to trillion dollar deficits as far as the eye can see and out of a… — Ari Fleischer
We have to reduce the burden placed on our economy by years of deficits and debt. — Jacob Lew
Our fiat currency is under increasing stress with our large and growing trade deficits. We have a federal deficit that is calculated in the trillions… — George Noory
Slow growth and inflation have a tendency to accompany large deficits and increasing debt as a percentage of GDP. — Bill Gross
On the issues that I care deeply about - the environment, Roe vs. Wade, the war in Iraq, with no weapons of mass destruction, the… — Lincoln Chafee
Deficits. Most people of knowledge say it's the biggest single problem facing the economic free world. — David Hartman
Understanding that yes, we are committing more resources than we thought we might be in protecting our homeland and prosecuting a war and so it's… — Donald Evans
It is past time for Republican leadership to answer for record deficits and reckless spending, both in Iraq and in the U.S. It's time for… — Sherrod Brown
In a time of serious budget deficits, immense war costs and a sluggish economy, we cannot afford to grant such outlandish subsidies to some of… — Ron Kind
For one thing, one of the wonderful things that we now have is instead of the huge budget surpluses that President Clinton left us with,… — Geraldine Ferraro
This is when our nation was supposed to start paying down the national debt and rolling back those massive deficits. This was the hope and… — Mitt Romney
I think that the difficult thing is for the president to answer to his economic record with the failed stimulus, higher health care costs. And… — Kelly Ayotte
The president said he'd cut the deficit in half. Unfortunately, he doubled it. Trillion-dollar deficits for the last four years. The president's put it in… — Mitt Romney
You've been president four years. You said you'd cut the deficit in half. It's now four years later. We still have trillion-dollar deficits. The CBO… — Mitt Romney
I mean, you have said before you'd cut the deficit in half. And this...I love this idea of $4 trillion in cuts. You found $4… — Mitt Romney

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