Best Quote by Ross Douthat

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

— Tim Kaine

The number one priority now is reducing the deficit that they [Labour] left us - the biggest deficit since the Second World War.

— Iain Duncan Smith

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

Our first benchmark is to cut the deficit more quickly to safeguard Britain’s credit rating. I know that we are taking a political gamble…

— George Osborne

When Republicans say, 'The first thing you do when you do deficit reduction is reduce rates,' it would be like Democrats saying, 'The first…

— Chuck Schumer

At times of recession, running a budget deficit is highly desirable. Once the economy begins to recover, you have to balance the budget. But…

— George Soros

Governments need to lay out a credible path to reducing their deficits in the medium term, but without excessively enfeebling an already weak recovery.…

— Zanny Minton Beddoes

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

While there are no easy solutions to this problem, the Deficit Reduction Act gets us started in the right direction by beginning with the…

— Jim Ryun

We should reduce total government spending as a percentage of the economy. The left wants to focus on the deficit so they can take…

— Grover Norquist

If we were to underrun our inflation objective over a period of time that we tried to increase interest rates, I think that would…

— Charles L. Evans

Our priority must be to build a path towards balancing the budget, and we cannot tolerate growing deficits.

— Anonymous