Billions Quote by Rick Perry

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

We're in a very Orwellian situation where when we - we've slashed defense. And we've raised taxes. And we consider $600 billion annual deficit…

— Victor Davis Hanson

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 don't know how long it will take. We can and we will get it under 6 percent. Let's look at, let's take a…

— Joe Biden

We can have tax cuts, but when we have tax cuts and do not have a surplus, the amount of the tax cut goes…

— John Spratt

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

Some of the huge tax breaks that we gave to the wealthiest 1 percent of the population in this country during the Bush era…

— Danny K. Davis

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 had a massive budget shortfall with a structural budget deficit and seemingly no way to close it; the city had been spending at…

— Cory Booker

We have to get the tax revenues up. That means we have to get back to a healthy American economy, grow the economy so…

— Mick Mulvaney

Traditionally, the way deficits have been cut is you hold expenditures more or less constant in real dollars and then let growth come in…

— Phil Bredesen

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