Costs Quote by Dean Phillips

If we weren't running deficits, if we weren't spending more than we were taking in, there would be no reason whatsoever to increase the…

— Ron Johnson

Raising the debt ceiling is not additional spending. It is simply saying, you, the United States of America, can continue to borrow the money…

— Jay Carney

Traditionally, the way deficits have been cut is you hold expenditures more or less constant in real dollars and then let growth come in…

— Phil Bredesen

The only way to eliminate the deficit in the long run is through growth.

— Edward Lazear

Well, a deficit reflects an imbalance between spending and revenue, and so narrowing it requires acting on one, the other or both.

— Anonymous

The budget should be balanced not by more taxes, but by reduction of follies.

— Herbert Hoover

We need to balance the budget and force Washington to stop spending more than it takes in.

— Joni Ernst

Even with not having a balanced budget at this time, I support tax cuts. That will help limit spending.

— Steve Chabot

...deficit consumption is, in effect, drawing down on the capital entitlements of future generations

— Jonathon Porritt

When the economy is growing, there's a lot that can be done to deal with the deficit.

— Henry Paulson

Budget deficits are not caused by wild-eyed spenders, but by slow economic growth and periodic recessions. And any new recession would break all deficit…

— John F. Kennedy

“When it comes to decreasing inequalities of wealth for good or reducing unusually high levels of public debt, a progressive tax on capital is…

— Thomas Piketty