Addresses Quote by John W. Snow

I think it's very important not to confuse the importance of dealing with Social Security in the long term with these short-term deficit reduction…

— Anonymous

The Affordable Care Act reduces the deficit considerably. I would simply point out to you that the Supreme Court has spoken, the American people…

— Jay Carney

We ought to deal with Social Security in a separate conversation that is not part of deficit reduction.

— Dick Durbin

In order to truly get deficit spending and federal debt under control, the Trump administration is going to have to eventually address entitlement reform.…

— Katie Pavlich

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

The problem isn't a Congress that won't cut spending or a president who won't raise taxes. The problem is an American public with a…

— P. J. O'Rourke

“I don’t think we’ll solve the problem of the deficit until three things happen: We need more discipline on spending in Congress. We need…

— Ronald Reagan

When you're talking about long-term deficit reduction, $4 trillion worth, entitlement reform needs to be part of it.

— Dick Durbin

At a time when the United States is handing out tax breaks to corporations that ship jobs overseas, corporate jet owners, and millionaires and…

— Sheldon Whitehouse

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

They're all tied together: taxes, Medicare, Social Security, and the debt. We've got to have a setting of priorities, and looking at it -…

— John McCain

My hope is that we can get a Republican-Democratic agreement on how we strengthen Social Security as well as looking at some of these…

— Barack Obama