Deficit Quote by Kent Conrad Download Open image “Social Security has not contributed to the deficit problem.” — Kent Conrad ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Deficit Problem Security Social Social security
We ought to deal with Social Security in a separate conversation that is not part of deficit reduction. — Dick Durbin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
While Social Security faces some long-term challenges, the system is not in crisis. — Chaka Fattah Copy Share Image
The President has no real plan to address the fiscal challenges arising from the retirement of the baby boom generation, let alone a plan… — Jack Reed Copy Share Image
Because Social Security has not contributed to our debt, Americans should be skeptical of any politician who says that benefits Americans have earned must… — Hank Johnson Copy Share Image
Retired Americans living on Social Security, exempt from taxes because their income is modest, are not the problem. — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
“Two scholars who served on the staff of President Reagan’s 1982 National Commission on Social Security Reform explain that Social Security does more to… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share Image
We cannot realize financial reconstruction and enhance social security without a strong economy. — Yoshihide Suga Copy Share Image
The reality is no one knows how much it will cost us to wage war with Iraq. — Kent Conrad Copy Share Image
Highway spending, which I think most everybody says is badly needed in this country, creates American jobs, and also makes America more competitive. — Kent Conrad Copy Share Image
Reducing our dependence on foreign energy - that is critically important to America's economic future. Excellence in education - if we're not the best… — Kent Conrad Copy Share Image
The President is not squaring with the American people as to the seriousness of our nation's fiscal condition. It is time for people to… — Kent Conrad Copy Share Image
The American people say, 'Don't touch Social Security, don't touch Medicare, don't cut defense.' That's 84 percent of the federal budget. — Kent Conrad Copy Share Image
I've had lengthy discussions with European farm leaders. It is clear they have an agricultural strategy to support their producers and gain dominance in… — Kent Conrad Copy Share Image
Anybody who has stood on the prairie in North Dakota has felt the force of the wind and knows that our state has an… — Kent Conrad Copy Share Image
Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society. — Kent Conrad Copy Share Image
We've got to have major health care reform because that is the 800-pound gorilla. That is the thing that can swamp the boat fiscally… — Kent Conrad Copy Share Image
Reconciliation cannot be used to pass comprehensive health care reform. It won't work because it was never designed for that kind of significant legislation;… — Kent Conrad Copy Share Image
When you're borrowing 40 cents of every dollar that you spend, that can't continue much longer. I think everybody really does understand that, and… — Kent Conrad Copy Share Image
At times of recession, running a budget deficit is highly desirable. Once the economy begins to recover, you have to balance the budget. But… — George Soros Copy Share Image
There is a nationwide shortage of drugs for Attention Deficit Disorder. The FDA says they're not sure how it happened. I guess somebody wasn't… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
The more competitive value of the dollar turned around the trade deficit. — Martin Feldstein Copy Share Image
Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government: by an artificial expansion of the money supply required to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I cannot conceive of a politically feasible solution to this problem which will overdo cutting the deficit, where overdoing means harming the economy. It… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
You know, dramas are much more expensive to do than say a comedy, so any kind of deficit like that is picked up on… — Paul Guilfoyle Copy Share Image
The major cause for American Negroes intellectual and social deficits is hereditary and racially genetic in origin and thus not remedial to a major… — William Shockley Copy Share Image
Back in those days, in the fifties and sixties, countries had balance of payment's deficits or surpluses, those were reflected much more than today… — Robert C. Solomon Copy Share Image
What sets black people apart is not some deficit in personal responsibility. It's the weight on our shoulders. That is what's actually different. We… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I will bring our energy companies back. They'll be able to compete. They'll make money. They'll pay off our national debt. They'll pay off… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The company must be profitable. Preferably it will have increased its earnings for the past five years and there will have been no deficits… — Peter Cundill Copy Share Image
