Deficit Quote by Jeb Hensarling Download Open image “The deficit is the symptom, but spending is the disease.” — Jeb Hensarling ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Deficit Disease Spending Symptom
The goal is to reduce the size and scope of government spending, not to focus on the deficit. The deficit is the symptom of… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
This is the disease in America. It's not just spending. It's not just taxes. It's not just corruption. It is progressivism. And it is… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
Well, a deficit reflects an imbalance between spending and revenue, and so narrowing it requires acting on one, the other or both. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
The [budget] deficit isn't the immediate problem for most people, the weak economy is. — Cynthia Tucker Copy Share Image
If you're worried about the deficit, pay attention to the fact that it's almost all attributable to military spending and the totally dysfunctional health… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it. — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
You care about the deficit because it allows you to do things you need to do to help people who are suffering. — Christina Romer Copy Share Image
I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Bad spending, to me, in terms of its economic benefit, would be wealth transfer payments. It's a misallocation of resources. — Mick Mulvaney Copy Share Image
Having a trade deficit and a budget deficit, it's two different things. — Stephanie Ruhle Copy Share Image
You've got Washington picking winners and losers. And so, all of a sudden, decisions are being made on what helps politicians, not what helps… — Jeb Hensarling Copy Share Image
We've all heard about Wall Street greed. I think people are now starting to be a little bit more sensitized to Washington greed -… — Jeb Hensarling Copy Share Image
The easiest thing that is done, unfortunately, in Washington is to spend money today and send the bill to our children and grandchildren. — Jeb Hensarling Copy Share Image
We cannot watch another family lose everything - risking their lives and the lives of the first responders sent to rescue them - because… — Jeb Hensarling Copy Share Image
Every time we've had a pro-growth fundamental tax reform, be it under President Reagan, President Kennedy - you can even go all the way… — Jeb Hensarling Copy Share Image
Listen, I wish economic growth only went in one direction. It doesn't. There are economic downturns. They're painful, they're harmful, and they hurt families. — Jeb Hensarling Copy Share Image
You talk to any of the job creators, and they'll tell you one of the things that concerns them the most is the debt.… — Jeb Hensarling Copy Share Image
If you were approaching the TARP investments from a pure investment standpoint, then there's no doubt in my mind the taxpayer lost, and probably… — Jeb Hensarling Copy Share Image
We should not be borrowing money from the Chinese to bail out the Greeks. What's coming next? Intergalactic bailouts? — Jeb Hensarling Copy Share Image
There are several different ways we can get at unclogging the arteries of lending in America and helping working people achieve financial independence. Part… — Jeb Hensarling Copy Share Image
At times of recession, running a budget deficit is highly desirable. Once the economy begins to recover, you have to balance the budget. But… — George Soros Copy Share Image
There is a nationwide shortage of drugs for Attention Deficit Disorder. The FDA says they're not sure how it happened. I guess somebody wasn't… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
The more competitive value of the dollar turned around the trade deficit. — Martin Feldstein Copy Share Image
Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government: by an artificial expansion of the money supply required to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I cannot conceive of a politically feasible solution to this problem which will overdo cutting the deficit, where overdoing means harming the economy. It… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
You know, dramas are much more expensive to do than say a comedy, so any kind of deficit like that is picked up on… — Paul Guilfoyle Copy Share Image
The major cause for American Negroes intellectual and social deficits is hereditary and racially genetic in origin and thus not remedial to a major… — William Shockley Copy Share Image
Back in those days, in the fifties and sixties, countries had balance of payment's deficits or surpluses, those were reflected much more than today… — Robert C. Solomon Copy Share Image
What sets black people apart is not some deficit in personal responsibility. It's the weight on our shoulders. That is what's actually different. We… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I will bring our energy companies back. They'll be able to compete. They'll make money. They'll pay off our national debt. They'll pay off… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The company must be profitable. Preferably it will have increased its earnings for the past five years and there will have been no deficits… — Peter Cundill Copy Share Image