Deficits Quote by Mitt Romney

The president said he'd cut the deficit in half. Unfortunately, he doubled it. Trillion-dollar deficits for the last four years. The president's put it…

— 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 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

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

We had a $10 billion budget deficit when we got here in January of 2003. We cut that budget deficit; we did not raise…

— Rick Perry

It took the first 204 years of our Nation's history to accumulate $1 trillion in debt. And now we are doing that every 2 or 3 years.

— Jim Cooper

We have to reduce the burden placed on our economy by years of deficits and debt.

— Anonymous

Ultimately, we can't just keep doubling our national debt every eight years. We have got to get that under control and not spend more…

— Ron Estes

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

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

Today I am pledging to cut the deficit we inherited in half by the end of my first term in office.

— 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