Deficit Quote by John Spratt

The budget enforcement rules of the 1990s were an important part of getting the budget back into balance. It was done on a bipartisan…

— Melissa Bean

Look at what happened in the 1990s: when they balanced the federal budget, it was through growth in the economy and controlling spending.

— Steve Scalise

The right way to deal with a budget problem that was years in the making is by formulating a credible plan to reduce the…

— Christina Romer

The deficit only became a big problem in the Reagan-Bush years. For 12 years, Republican presidents talked about balancing the budget, but failed to…

— Dick Gephardt

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

The reason we have such a reform budget is because we've been thinking about these things for a long time.

— John Kasich

I was the chairman of the Budget Committee and the lead architect the last time it happened in Washington, and when we did it…

— John Kasich

We get to a balanced budget within eight to 10 years. We do it by reducing spending in a whole series of programs. By…

— Mitt Romney

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

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

Defense spending as a share of the economy dropped significantly during the early 1990s, and that was one of the things, along with other…

— Peter Orszag

We cannot win the future, expand the economy and spur job creation if we are saddled with increasingly growing deficits. That is why the…

— Anonymous