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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

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

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

But if you take pleasure in morality, then you are always in deficit. — Brian Castro

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

Both sides of the aisle - Republican and Democrat - have been unwilling and afraid to address the deficit, and someone's got to. — Rand Paul

When you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it. — Viola Davis

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

I understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending. — Al Sharpton

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

We now know that inflation results from all that deficit spending. — Ronald Reagan

I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself. — Ronald Reagan

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

Community is as endangered by surplus as it is by deficit. If there is too much money floating around it enables people to have no need of each other. — Bill McKibben

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 are committed to achieving the fiscal deficit target announced in the budget. — Narendra Modi

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

The public has no idea that the deficit has been falling like a stone. — Paul Krugman

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

The only way to eliminate the deficit in the long run is through growth. — Edward Lazear

While the deficit and debt are serious problems, I oppose solving these problems by raising taxes. — Jason Chaffetz

Social Security has not contributed to the deficit problem. — Kent Conrad

The national deficit is not rising. — Ed Balls

You want a better world ... ? Legalize pot right now ... end the deficit? Legalize pot right now ... biggest cash crop in America. — Bill Hicks

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

Sleep deficit and an anemic pocketbook dictate my erratic lifestyle. — Wanda Coleman

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

Will stifle economic growth, destroy jobs, reduce revenues, and increase the deficit. — Jim Ramstad

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

No church property is taxed and so the infidel and the atheist and the man without religion are taxed to make up the deficit. — Mark Twain

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

I have served in the Congress during two wars and I have seen the impacts on our military, on their families and on our national deficit. — Tom Udall

In order to reduce the deficit, there has to be revenue in addition to cuts. — Jim Lehrer

A wisdom deficit - fewer elders and even fewer people who listen to them. — Jonas Salk

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'm one of those that have said, one of my key principles is I will not support a health care reform bill that is not deficit-neutral, period. — Mike Ross

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

Those with a moral deficit put on a good show, and sleep like a baby. — Paul Newman

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

Comprehensive immigration reform would reduce the deficit and help grow the economy. — Scott Peters

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

It's not easy cutting welfare bills. It's not easy cutting the deficit. — George Osborne

Attention-deficit disorders seem to abound in modern society, and we don't know the cause. — Marilyn Vos Savant

When the democratic deficit is so enormous, people are left with very little option but to take peaceful, non-violent direct action. — Caroline Lucas

I've been dyslexic and had Attention Deficit Disorder at some time in my life. I still read with a highlighter, but I've always loved to read. — Andrew Young