Bad idea Quote by Nancy Pelosi

We can reduce our deficit, and do it in a much more balanced way than sequestration, simply by fixing our tax code to get…

— Sheldon Whitehouse

Sequestration was not designed to be anyone's ideal method for getting our hands around government spending, and it certainly isn't mine.

— Johnny Isakson

If we have to continue to live under sequestration, it will have a maximum impact on our ability to fulfill the president's strategic guidance.…

— Chuck Hagel

It seems to me that instead of cutting taxes, we ought to be increasing the taxes to pay off the deficit, rather than let…

— Walter Cronkite

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

Sequestration is leverage that should not be given up easily.

— Max Baucus

Instead of raising taxes as some would insist, we need to reduce waste and inefficiency in government.

— Tim Murphy

I cannot conceive of a politically feasible solution to this problem which will overdo cutting the deficit, where overdoing means harming the economy. It…

— Alan Greenspan

I agree with the idea of cutting [budget], but it should all be coming out of entitlements for the affluent and not out of…

— David Brooks

I refuse to accept any approach that isn't balanced. I'm not going to ask students and seniors and middle-class families to pay down the…

— Barack Obama

That kind of approach, I believe, will not grow our economy, because the only way to pay for it without either burdening the middle…

— Barack Obama

So if we are really concerned about generating more taxes, we ought to be investing in our people, not taking away the kinds of…

— Patrick J. Kennedy