Quote by Mitt Romney

You've been president four years. You said you'd cut the deficit in half. It's now four years later. We still have trillion-dollar deficits. The…

— Mitt Romney

I mean, you have said before you'd cut the deficit in half. And this...I love this idea of $4 trillion in cuts. You found…

— Mitt Romney

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

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

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

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

I think that the difficult thing is for the president to answer to his economic record with the failed stimulus, higher health care costs.…

— Kelly Ayotte

We're committed to working with Congress to doing what the president said he was always going to do, which is cut the deficit in…

— Christina Romer

When my husband was president, we went from a $300 billion deficit to a $200 billion surplus and we were actually on the path…

— Hillary Clinton

We are worried about the size of the deficit, which is why the president is pleased that the House and Senate have followed his…

— Ken Mehlman

When Mr. Obama entered office, he said all the right things about getting Washington spending under control. He even promised to cut the deficit…

— Pete Hegseth

The deficit only became a big problem in the Reagan-Bush years. For 12 years, Republican presidents talked about balancing the budget, but failed to…

— Dick Gephardt