Administration Quote by Michael Hudson

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

Mr. Obama plans to boost federal spending 25 percent while nearly tripling the national debt over 10 years. Americans know that this kind of…

— Karl Rove

Any money the government spends must be taxed, borrowed or conjured out of thin air by the Federal Reserve, and that will reduce sound…

— John Stossel

Both parties recognize the fundamental danger the country's debt poses to our nation's future, but President Obama's policies have not reflected that reality. By…

— Kim Reynolds

President Obama has offered a plan with 4 trillion dollars in debt reduction over a decade, with two and a half dollars of spending…

— William J. Clinton

President Obama has almost doubled our national debt to more than $19 trillion, and growing. And yet, what do we have to show for…

— Donald Trump

To reduce deficit spending and our enormous debt, you reign in spending. You cut the budget. You don't take more from the private sector…

— Sarah Palin

The Obama administration's large and sustained increases in debt raise the specter of another financial crisis and large future tax increases, further chilling business…

— Glenn Hubbard

While President Bush's tax give-aways for the rich are pushing us further into debt, he compensates by increasing the out-of-pocket costs to our veterans.

— Tom Harkin

We have, during his regime, during President Obama's regime, we've doubled our national debt. We're up to $20 trillion.

— Donald Trump

Government spending is being restrained, the economy is making progress and moving forward, and the pro-growth, tax cutting policies put in place have allowed…

— Bill Shuster

The American system of political spending is so unregulated that it might make Adam Smith rethink free markets.

— Jon Meacham