Care Quote by Chris Murphy

Deficits are anathema to most Republicans. And Democrats widely believe that government spending should fall as the economy recovers.

— Annie Lowrey

Republicans profess to be against deficits, but they are experts at creating and exacerbating deficits.

— Keith Ellison

I don't think the deficit of the country is a Republican issue or a Democratic issue. I think it's a country issue. I don't…

— Indra Nooyi

Democrats have always wanted to grow government with revenues from our society's producers. They aren't sincere about reducing the deficit, because they will not…

— David Limbaugh

True conservatives would not be concerned about deficits when liberals are in power, but then ignore them entirely when the Republican party wants to…

— Neera Tanden

When Republicans say, 'The first thing you do when you do deficit reduction is reduce rates,' it would be like Democrats saying, 'The first…

— Chuck Schumer

The modern GOP has perfected this cyclical deficit outrage ritual. Republicans run up the tab when they control the White House, then scream about…

— Ari Melber

To be fair, Republicans are not blameless. The deficit began to spiral out of control on President Bush's watch.

— Rob Woodall

Although virtually all Republicans campaign on fiscal restraint, how many actually care about it deeply?

— Tucker Carlson

When this president was sworn into office, he was handed a deficit of over a trillion dollars. Republicans were in control of Congress for…

— Jay Carney

Republicans don't seem to mind taking inflation into account when the subject is tax rates.

— Timothy Noah

I think the Republicans have really thoughtful financial policies, and I'm more in the middle on taxation.

— Jamie Dimon