Against Quote by Keith Ellison

Deficits are anathema to most Republicans. And Democrats widely believe that government spending should fall as the economy recovers.

— Annie Lowrey

As I'm learning, Republicans seem to only care about deficits when a Democrat is in the White House.

— Chris Murphy

To be fair, Republicans are not blameless. The deficit began to spiral out of control on President Bush's watch.

— Rob Woodall

By restraining spending and by cutting the deficit, Republican policies are helping to keep our economy strong.

— Dennis Hastert

When [Republicans] say they can reduce taxes and trim deficits at the same time, they are either deluded or deceptive, and they are playing…

— E. J. Dionne

I don't think the deficit of the country is a Republican issue or a Democratic issue. I think it's a country issue. I don't…

— Indra Nooyi

True conservatives would not be concerned about deficits when liberals are in power, but then ignore them entirely when the Republican party wants to…

— Neera Tanden

One of the reasons we don't have our deficit under control is because Republicans are wusses and won't tell their base a simple fact…

— Ed Rendell

[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

Democrats have always wanted to grow government with revenues from our society's producers. They aren't sincere about reducing the deficit, because they will not…

— David Limbaugh

I don't understand how the Republican party is the party with the reputation for fiscal conservatism and fiscal sanity, when they're the ones who…

— Bill Maher