Deficit Quotes
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We wanted to be certain they didn't have a bigger deficit, and Kennedy agreed with me.
— Wilbur Mills
If you raise taxes, it won't reduce the deficit. The other team will simply spend the resources.
— Grover Norquist
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 solution.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
To the deficit commission, a depression is the solution to the problem, not a problem.
— Michael Hudson
It is vital that we get these policies right as we take forward our plans to drive down the deficit and transform our economy.
— David Cameron
Of course we have to address the deficit if we win.
— Helle Thorning-Schmidt
India's trade deficit is because of excess of import over exports.
— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
My advice for Sebastian Kehl is: if you have a 35-point deficit in the league, it is better to shut up.
— Pep Guardiola
I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits.
— Alan Greenspan
Deficit consumption is, in effect, drawing down on the capital entitlements of future generations
— Jonathon Porritt
From the point of view of the meditative traditions the entire society is suffering from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
Until the president produces a responsible deficit reduction plan, I'm not going to the White House to negotiate with myself.
— Jeff Landry
The important lesson of the deficit is - and the national debt - is we have to be careful about how we're spending money.
— Joseph Stiglitz
The deficit crisis is real and must be addressed. But it cannot be solved on the backs of the weak and vulnerable.
— Bernie Sanders
My nephew has HDADHD. High Definition Attention Deficit Disorder. He can barely pay attention, but when he does it's unbelievably clear.
— Steven Wright
The trade deficit is the capital surplus and don't ever think of having a capital surplus as being a bad thing for our country.
— Arthur Laffer
If investors are willing to fund the U.S. deficit, why wouldn't investors want to fund the press freedom deficit?
— Sasa Vucinic
The poor have been sent to the front lines of a federal budget deficit reduction war that few other groups were drafted to fight ...
— Marian Wright Edelman
Obama did inherit a deficit when he came into office. Why this fact justifies racking up vastly more debt and bigger deficits is a logical mystery.
— Jonah Goldberg
We must create wealth and we must cut our deficits.
— Manuel Valls
Despite deficit rains, we have been successful in bringing down the inflation down from double digits to 3-4%
— Narendra Modi
Things are going better: there is more growth, less deficit, more competitiveness, better margins for companies, more purchasing power for workers.
— Francois Hollande
The deficit is the symptom, but spending is the disease.
— Jeb Hensarling
Spending on the military doesn't increase the deficit.
— Ronald Reagan
Online we have a compassion deficit
— Monica Lewinsky
If we do our deficit spending on weapons, at least we get weapons. Then if we need weapons, we have them. If we don't need them, no harm is done.
— P. J. O'Rourke
The goal is to reduce the size and scope of government spending, not to focus on the deficit. The deficit is the symptom of the disease.
— Grover Norquist
It's impossible to imagine the Democratic Party seeking a pro-life, free-trading, non-protectionist, deficit hawk.
— John McCain
In special education, there's too much emphasis placed on the deficit and not enough on the strength.
— Temple Grandin
I don't know if I'm attention deficit, but I certainly am easily distracted by other things.
— James Vincent McMorrow
He found he was suffering from laugh-deficit disorder.
— Dean Koontz
It's going to be true that anything that reduces the federal deficit will have somebody unhappy.
— Jacob Lew
We don't have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven't taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much.
— Ronald Reagan
Today I am pledging to cut the deficit we inherited in half by the end of my first term in office.
— Barack Obama
My desire to experiment comes from my attention-deficit approach to cosmetics. I just get really bored, really easily.
— Paloma Faith
I'm dyslexic, I have attention-deficit disorder, and I've got something like a hereditary tremor.
— Ozzy Osbourne
What we do want to see is reforms that are going to have a permanent effect on the budget deficit.
— Ed Parker
I worked at the White House in the early Reagan administration at a time when the deficit rocket really started to take off.
— Christopher Buckley
We think we can't survive without deficit spending - but we soon won't be able to survive with deficit spending, either.
— Tony Blankley
In the past, proactive fiscal polices almost always meant just more investment and an increase in the fiscal deficit.
— Li Keqiang
The federal budget deficit is the biggest single impediment to revitalizing the American economy.
— Alice Rivlin
We have to change economic policy: create confidence, foster investment, cut the public deficit, restructure taxation and reform the labor laws.
— Mariano Rajoy
Are you insane?" "Probably, yes," she said. "Empathy deficit disorder. Excessive violence. Something along those lines.
— David Lagercrantz
My doctor told me i had Attention Deficit Disorder. He said, 'ADD is a complex disorder, blah, blah, blah,' I didn't pay attention to the rest.
— Kyle Dunnigan
The only thing growing faster than the federal government's deficit is Chris Matthews' man-crush on Barack Obama.
— Tim Pawlenty
While the deficit and debt are serious problems, I oppose solving these problems by raising taxes.
— Jason Chaffetz
The national deficit is not rising.
— Ed Balls
When you think about it, attention-deficit order makes a lot of sense. In this country there isn't a lot worth paying attention to.
— George Carlin
One thing everyone seems to agree on is that Republicans face a perceived compassion deficit.
— Gary Bauer
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
Thoughtful exposure of youngsters to nature can even be a powerful form of therapy for attention-deficit disorders and other maladies.
— Richard Louv
I realize that I can be with someone, but on a deeper level I'm not available to them at all. I have attention deficit disorder of the soul.
— Sue Monk Kidd
I was a classic attention deficit disorder kid, always bored and mouthing off at school.
— Stephen Rodrick
The President forgot to mention the Moon, Mars, and the federal deficit - all of which are sky-high.
— Brad Sherman
To the degree you experience a love deficit you will also manifest a leadership deficit.
— Glenn C. Stewart
Whatever might be taken from me need not leave me with a deficit in its wake.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Well, a deficit reflects an imbalance between spending and revenue, and so narrowing it requires acting on one, the other or both.
— Peter Orszag
There is no deficit in human resources; the deficit is in human will.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
The whole bloody world's got a commitment problem.It's the three-minute culture. It's a global attention-span deficit. — Helen Fielding
When the economy is growing, there's a lot that can be done to deal with the deficit.
— Henry Paulson
The only way that we can reduce our financial dependence on the inflow of funds from the rest of the world is to reduce our trade deficit.
— Martin Feldstein
We do ourselves a disservice when some of us cave to the myth that Social Security somehow drives the deficit.
— Martin O'Malley
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
The uninformed must improve their deficit, or die.
— Cheshire Cat
Everyone I know has attention deficit, and they say it with great pride. It's a bad time to be right.
— Joni Mitchell
At his best, Obama promised to work with Republicans to reduce the deficit in a way that honors both individualism and community.
— Ron Fournier
You cannot cut your way to deficit reduction.
— Nancy Pelosi
Essentially, when we run a deficit, we are borrowing money to buy things that are made overseas.
— Peter DeFazio
I can clear a dinner table in less than 60 seconds, moaning like a dockyard Elijah about the deficit and the inevitable reckoning.
— Christopher Buckley
I have attention deficit disorder, so sitting in a classroom is not the best thing for me.
— Jeremy Miller
Only the insane equate pain with success.""The uninformed must improve their deficit, or die."
_Cheshire Cat — Lewis Carroll
I will fight for budget honesty and eliminating the deficit to reduce the transfer of debt to younger generations.
— Roscoe Bartlett
I've never been able to get it straight about what these people who are worried about the trade deficit are worried about.
— P. J. O'Rourke
To be fair, Republicans are not blameless. The deficit began to spiral out of control on President Bush's watch.
— Rob Woodall
Attention-deficit disorders seem to abound in modern society, and we don't know the cause.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
