Deficit Quote by Grover Norquist

The deficit is the symptom, but spending is the disease.

— Jeb Hensarling

The federal budget deficit isn't the nation's major economic problem and deficit reduction shouldn't be our major goal. Our problem is lack of good…

— Robert Reich

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

— Anonymous

The way to reduce the deficit is to create jobs and work opportunities so that people will have money with which to pay taxes.

— Danny K. Davis

Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth.

— Alan Greenspan

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

— Viola Davis

To reduce deficit spending and our enormous debt, you reign in spending. You cut the budget. You don't take more from the private sector…

— Sarah Palin

It is my view that what is important is cutting government spending, however spending is financed. A so-called deficit is a disguised and hidden…

— Milton Friedman

Governments need to lay out a credible path to reducing their deficits in the medium term, but without excessively enfeebling an already weak recovery.…

— Zanny Minton Beddoes

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

— Ronald Reagan

In order to reduce the deficit, there has to be revenue in addition to cuts.

— Jim Lehrer

Governments harangue about deficits to get more revenue so they can spend more.

— Allan H. Meltzer