Country Quote by Mitch McConnell

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

— Henry Paulson

What we should be doing is responsibly addressing the primary drivers of our debt and deficit issues.

— Ron Johnson

The single greatest force for deficit reduction is a growing economy.

— Kevin Brady

The federal budget deficit isn't the nation's major economic problem and deficit reduction shouldn't be our major goal. Our problem is lack of good…

— Robert Reich

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

“I don’t think we’ll solve the problem of the deficit until three things happen: We need more discipline on spending in Congress. We need…

— Ronald Reagan

The National Debt is a very Good Thing and it would be dangerous to pay it off for fear of Political Economy.

— W. C. Sellar

We think we can't survive without deficit spending - but we soon won't be able to survive with deficit spending, either.

— Tony Blankley

Anything that we can do to raise personal savings is very much in the interest of this country.

— Alan Greenspan

For one thing, one of the wonderful things that we now have is instead of the huge budget surpluses that President Clinton left us…

— Geraldine Ferraro

The important lesson of the deficit is - and the national debt - is we have to be careful about how we're spending money.

— Joseph Stiglitz

Even with not having a balanced budget at this time, I support tax cuts. That will help limit spending.

— Steve Chabot