Budgets Quote by Ronald Reagan

[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

Maybe that first, gigantic deficit the Reaganites piled up was an accident, just a combination of deluded 'supply side' tax cuts and a huge…

— Thomas Frank

True conservatives would not be concerned about deficits when liberals are in power, but then ignore them entirely when the Republican party wants to…

— Neera Tanden

When done right - or wrong, depending on how you look at it - deficits remove liberal options from the table. Suddenly there's no…

— Thomas Frank

I don't know how you make a record on liberal and conservative these days. We've had a conservative Republican Congress, so to speak, and…

— Sam Nunn

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

— Anonymous

The deficit only became a big problem in the Reagan-Bush years. For 12 years, Republican presidents talked about balancing the budget, but failed to…

— Dick Gephardt

This is what the election of 2010 was about. We didn't send conservatives to Washington to flirt with Democrat proposals for higher taxes and…

— Adam Hasner

People ask how I can be a conservative and still want higher taxes. It makes my head spin, and I guess it shows how…

— Ben Stein

Big government conservatives are spending trillions and wasting billions. Republicans are no longer the party of fiscal conservancy, but the party of runaway spending…

— Sherrod Brown

Indeed, in both Wisconsin and Washington, Republicans are disingenuously using budget and deficit arguments to advance their political goals.

— Neera Tanden

Outrageous fiscal mendacity is neither historically normal nor bipartisan. It's a modern Republican thing.

— Paul Krugman