Accident Quote by Thomas Frank

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

Ronald Reagan cut taxes to raise the deficit to stop liberals in future years from increasing spending. Obama will raise spending to raise the…

— Dick Morris

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

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

“Overall, the “Reagan boom” not only produced widespread prosperity but—along with the attendant Soviet collapse—helped generate budget surpluses in the 1990s. Carter-Ford-era terms like…

— Paul Kengor

Ladies and gentlemen, the Reagan tax cuts turned the deepest recession since the Great Depression into the largest 20-year economic boom in American history.…

— Rush Limbaugh

Reagan proved that deficits don't matter.

— Dick Cheney

The president said he'd cut the deficit in half. Unfortunately, he doubled it. Trillion-dollar deficits for the last four years. The president's put it…

— Mitt Romney

One of the reasons the deficit got as big as it did, frankly, was because of the economic slowdown, the fall-off in deficits, the…

— Dick Cheney

Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present,…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

The reason Ronald Reagan gets slammed for having so badly exacerbated the problem of deficit spending is that he so plainly deserves it.

— Daniel Keys Moran

When this president was sworn into office, he was handed a deficit of over a trillion dollars. Republicans were in control of Congress for…

— Jay Carney