Biggest Quote by Melissa Bean

When President Bush left office, the deficit was approximately $500 billion. It is now approximately now $1.5 trillion. In other words, President Obama has…

— Tim Pawlenty

The federal budget deficit is the biggest single impediment to revitalizing the American economy.

— Alice Rivlin

American's greatest deficit is no longer found in the federal budget. It is a moral deficit, and it may be found in a polluted…

— Pat Buchanan

The biggest debt is always the government debt; it's always debt that government has run up on your behalf.

— Margaret Atwood

Now, we all know that we've got to do more. And so I've put forward a specific $4 trillion deficit reduction plan. It's on…

— Barack Obama

It's the [George Bush] president's fiscal policies that have driven up the biggest deficits in American history. He's added more debt to the debt…

— John F. Kerry

If the U.S. Government was a company, the deficit would be $5 trillion because they would have to account by general accepted accounting principles.…

— Marc Faber

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

— Henry Paulson

When George Bush came into office, we had surpluses. And now we have half-a-trillion-dollar deficit annually. When George Bush came into office, our national…

— Barack Obama

I don't know how you make a record on liberal and conservative these days. We've had a conservative Republican Congress, so to speak, and…

— Sam Nunn

One of the reasons the deficit got as big as it did, frankly, was because of the economic slowdown, the fall-off in deficits, the…

— Dick Cheney

The deficit - the U.S. knows our deficit is too large. We are committed to bringing it down. We are bringing it down. The…

— John W. Snow