Consumption Quote by Jonathon Porritt

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

— Anonymous

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

— Dick Durbin

Deficits mean future tax increases, pure and simple. Deficit spending should be viewed as a tax on future generations, and politicians who create deficits…

— Ron Paul

When the economy is growing, there's a lot that can be done to deal with the deficit.

— Henry Paulson

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

— Anonymous

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

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

Let's be clear: deficit reduction alone is not an economic plan.

— Barack Obama

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

Economically, long-term joblessness means fewer dollars for consumption. For deficit control, it means fewer taxpayers contributing to government revenues and tens of billions more…

— Nina Easton

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

— Alan Greenspan

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

— Jeb Hensarling