Crosses Quote by Stephen Harper

Well, I think what we need to remember is that budget deficits can impede economic activity.

— Anonymous

I cannot conceive of a politically feasible solution to this problem which will overdo cutting the deficit, where overdoing means harming the economy. It…

— Alan Greenspan

Yes, deficits are a problem. I've been saying so for more than a quarter of a century now. But the problem is not the…

— Ronald Reagan

The American people will eventually get hurt by this accumulated deficit. That's the problem. We have too much deficit. We have to find a…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The problem with our deficit is not because Americans are taxed too little. The problem with the deficit is because Washington spends too much…

— Paul Ryan

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

— Henry Paulson

I think where I differ a little bit, we absolutely have to think about the deficit looking down the road. And certainly that's something…

— Christina Romer

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

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

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

— Tim Kaine

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

— Anonymous

The federal budget deficit isn't the nation's major economic problem and deficit reduction shouldn't be our major goal. Our problem is lack of good…

— Robert Reich