America Quote by Pat Buchanan

Meanwhile, the U.S. debt remains, as it has been since 1790, a war debt; the United States continues to spend more on its military…

— David Graeber

The federal budget deficit is the biggest single impediment to revitalizing the American economy.

— Alice Rivlin

The American people will eventually get hurt by this accumulated deficit. That's the problem. We have too much deficit. We have to find a…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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

[Deficits are] a yawner. We, as Republicans, have talked about deficits and balanced budgets since the days of Roosevelt, and the people simply haven't…

— Paul Laxalt

It seems to me there are good deficits and bad deficits. Now, we have a deficit that comes from the militarization of our society…

— Anonymous

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

The problem with our deficit is not because Americans are taxed too little. The problem with the deficit is because Washington spends too much…

— Paul Ryan

The deficit - the U.S. knows our deficit is too large. We are committed to bringing it down. We are bringing it down. The…

— John W. Snow

When I walked into the Oval Office, I had more than a trillion-dollar deficit greeting me. And we know where it came from: two…

— Barack Obama

We're in a trade war. We've been in a trade war for decades. That's why we have the deficit.

— Wilbur Ross

What's hurting the U.S. economy is total government spending. The deficit is an indicator that the government is spending so much money that it…

— Grover Norquist