Badly Quote by Daniel Keys Moran

Ronald Reagan felt very great regret about the deficits to which he contributed on his watch.

— Eugene Jarecki

Reagan proved that deficits don't matter.

— Dick Cheney

Reagan proved deficits don't matter.

— Dick Cheney

Reagan didn't put anything off the table, if he felt it was for the good of the American people to tweak the tax system.

— Alan K. Simpson

Throughout his life, Ronald Reagan believed America is capable of great things and its people could and would lead the way if left unburdened…

— Anonymous

The deficit only became a big problem in the Reagan-Bush years. For 12 years, Republican presidents talked about balancing the budget, but failed to…

— Dick Gephardt

Maybe that first, gigantic deficit the Reaganites piled up was an accident, just a combination of deluded 'supply side' tax cuts and a huge…

— Thomas Frank

Mr. Obama's choices show how fundamentally unserious he is about deficit reduction and spending restraint.

— Monica Crowley

Ronald Reagan cut taxes to raise the deficit to stop liberals in future years from increasing spending. Obama will raise spending to raise the…

— Dick Morris

“Overall, the “Reagan boom” not only produced widespread prosperity but—along with the attendant Soviet collapse—helped generate budget surpluses in the 1990s. Carter-Ford-era terms like…

— Paul Kengor

It's the [George Bush] president's fiscal policies that have driven up the biggest deficits in American history. He's added more debt to the debt…

— John F. Kerry

In short, the elimination of the financial legacy of Reaganomics could force the United States to make some exceptionally difficult choices indeed.

— Robert Gilpin