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Once you run current-account deficits, you depend on the kindness of strangers. This might be the beginning of the end of the American empire.
— Nouriel Roubini
I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits.
— Alan Greenspan
As anyone who lived through the 1990s knows, nothing shrinks our deficits faster than a growing economy.
— Denis McDonough
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
Today, we have a trade regime which has led to the largest trade deficits this country has ever experienced.
— Xavier Becerra
Cutting budget deficits can never be just an exercise in economics.
— George Osborne
President Obama met with leaders of the American Indian tribes and they honored the president by giving him his own Indian name: Running Deficits.
— Jay Leno
Ronald Reagan felt very great regret about the deficits to which he contributed on his watch.
— Eugene Jarecki
Deficits. Most people of knowledge say it's the biggest single problem facing the economic free world.
— David Hartman
Indeed, as subsequent events would show, debts, rather than deficits, make countries vulnerable in a monetary union.
— Jean Pisani-Ferry
Deficits must be cut, yes, but the rush to austerity risks undermining the fragile global recovery.
— Alistair Darling
Slow growth and inflation have a tendency to accompany large deficits and increasing debt as a percentage of GDP.
— Bill Gross
Deficits do not in themselves produce inflation, nor does a balanced budget assure a stable price level.
— William Vickrey
Republicans profess to be against deficits, but they are experts at creating and exacerbating deficits.
— Keith Ellison
What works for Germany can't work for the rest of Europe: No country can run a chronic surplus without others running deficits.
— George Soros
If you want more from life - start by counting your blessings instead of counting your losses, deficits and wants.
— Bryant McGill
Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate unemployment as the far greater evil in terms of human welfare.
— William Vickrey
Near-term deficits are temporary and manageable if - and only if - we keep spending in check, the tax burden low and the economy growing.
— Jim Nussle
Californians are worried about whether they will have a job along with ballooning federal spending and deficits.
— Carly Fiorina
Governments don't reduce deficits by raising taxes on the people; governments reduce deficits by controlling spending and stimulating new wealth.
— Ronald Reagan
Reagan proved deficits don't matter.
— Dick Cheney
The problems seem so easy out there on the stump. Deficits shrink with a rhetorical flourish.
— Hugh Sidey
I want to be very clear: I will not sign on to any health plan that adds to our deficits over the next decade.
— Barack Obama
Well, I think what we need to remember is that budget deficits can impede economic activity.
— Peter Orszag
A lot of people say, 'Why do health-care reform when the deficits are so big?' But that is when we've got to do it.
— Mike Ross
Those who can't imagine change reveal the deficits of their imaginations, not the difficulty of change.
— Nelson Mandela
Deficits are like putting dynamite in the hands of children. They can get out of control very quickly.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
While deficits are often inflationary and always pernicious, curing them by raising taxes is equivalent to curing an illness by shooting the patient.
— Murray Rothbard
Chronic deficits drastically reduce government's ability to make those infrastructure investments that business needs to grow and create jobs.
— Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
Bush may be a strong leader in the war on terrorism, but on budget deficits he is missing-in-action.
— Jim Cooper