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

— Anonymous

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

Today we care about budgets more than anything. Our American future hangs on the ability of government to cut budget.

— Amity Shlaes

The Budget is an opportunity to bring honesty to the public finances.

— Rachel Reeves

[Deficits are] a yawner. We, as Republicans, have talked about deficits and balanced budgets since the days of Roosevelt, and the people simply haven't…

— Paul Laxalt

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

If you're really concerned about deficits, you cannot take seriously a budget that would give $30 billion a year worth of tax cuts to…

— Barack Obama

We grow our own source revenue base, we put ourselves into a stronger financial position and so this budget is unashamedly going to be…

— Peter Gutwein

But when I look at the fact that today is 1,000 days that we have not had a budget for the United States of…

— Allen West

Of course, tax revenues have ended up being substantially higher than they were at the time these dire projections were made, and we are…

— Anonymous

Well, I think the president has clearly submitted us a tight budget, but it's what's called for if we're going to get spending under…

— Thad Cochran

I think we all know the budgetary environment we live in. We all know the troubling future for federal deficits. They should pay for…

— Douglas Holtz-Eakin