Deficit Quote by Ezra Klein

Deficits are like putting dynamite in the hands of children. They can get out of control very quickly.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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

When you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it.

— Viola Davis

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

— Anonymous

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

I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself.

— Ronald Reagan

We have a deficit of wonder right now.

— Tom Waits

I know economists will say well, we could run a small deficit but the problem is that once you cross that line as we…

— Stephen Harper

You cannot cut your way to deficit reduction.

— Nancy Pelosi

I think where I differ a little bit, we absolutely have to think about the deficit looking down the road. And certainly that's something…

— Christina Romer

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 problems seem so easy out there on the stump. Deficits shrink with a rhetorical flourish.

— Hugh Sidey