Congress Quote by Sam Nunn

Conservatives were brought up to hate deficits and justifiably so. We've long thought there are two things in Washington that are unbalanced - the…

— Ronald Reagan

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

[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

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

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

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

Look, I don't dispute that the deficit has increased.

— Austan Goolsbee

I don't understand how the Republican party is the party with the reputation for fiscal conservatism and fiscal sanity, when they're the ones who…

— Bill Maher

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

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

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