Committing Quote by Donald Evans

The American people will eventually get hurt by this accumulated deficit. That's the problem. We have too much deficit. We have to find a…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The important lesson of the deficit is - and the national debt - is we have to be careful about how we're spending money.

— Joseph Stiglitz

We're in a very Orwellian situation where when we - we've slashed defense. And we've raised taxes. And we consider $600 billion annual deficit…

— Victor Davis Hanson

It seems to me there are good deficits and bad deficits. Now, we have a deficit that comes from the militarization of our society…

— Anonymous

We're committed to working with Congress to doing what the president said he was always going to do, which is cut the deficit in…

— Christina Romer

We're in a trade war. We've been in a trade war for decades. That's why we have the deficit.

— Wilbur Ross

The deficit - the U.S. knows our deficit is too large. We are committed to bringing it down. We are bringing it down. The…

— John W. Snow

My point is cutting spending shouldn't be reliant on the debt limit though. It's something we have to do. The good news for America…

— David Plouffe

We are spending more as a percentage of our entire economy, almost 25 percent, than we have spent at any time since the end…

— John Thune

Why am I interested in deficits? The only way you balance the budget in this country long-term is through sustained economic growth. And that's…

— Mick Mulvaney

Well, I think what we need to remember is that budget deficits can impede economic activity.

— Anonymous

...More important than the deficit, more important then healthcare-more important than anything-we have got to do something about our energy strategy. Because if we…

— William J. Clinton