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In order to reduce the deficit, there has to be revenue in addition to cuts.

— Jim Lehrer

Well, mathematically, there are three ways that you can cut a deficit. One, of course, is to raise taxes. Number two is to cut…

— Mitt Romney

Well, a deficit reflects an imbalance between spending and revenue, and so narrowing it requires acting on one, the other or both.

— Anonymous

The best way to deal with the deficit is through economic growth.

— Tim Kaine

Cutting the fiscal deficit is not popular. That is the experience of all governments in all countries. Expenditure cuts hurt certain vested interests, and…

— Manmohan Singh

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

— Henry Paulson

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

Budget cuts if you're not rich, tax cuts if you are. Less money for those who don't have any and more to those who…

— Will Durst

One truism of federal budgeting is that growing deficits force difficult spending decisions, and when they do, programs to help the poor are usually…

— Brian Deese

I know economists will say well, we could run a small deficit but the problem is that once you cross that line as we…

— Stephen Harper

You're having government spending on the economy being cut almost everywhere. That means that the only source of spending for growth has to come…

— Michael Hudson

One of the reasons the deficit got as big as it did, frankly, was because of the economic slowdown, the fall-off in deficits, the…

— Dick Cheney