Deficit Quotes

• The only thing growing faster than the federal government's deficit is Chris Matthews' man-crush on Barack Obama.

  Tim Pawlenty

  Crush, Men, Usa

  "Red meat from T-Paw" by Ben Smith, www.politico.com. June 6, 2009.

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• 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 the president has said that we need to, as the economy recovers, have a plan in place for getting it down.

  Christina Romer

  Thinking, President, Littles

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

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Attention, Literature, Causes

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• Americas largest trade deficit is with China, a nation that enjoys Permanent Normal Trade Relations with the U.S. and ties its currency to the dollar to make it a more competitive trading partner.

  Jo Ann Emerson

  Ties, Normal, Dollars

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• 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

  World, Way, Financial

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• America knows it has got to deal with its deficit problems so that it, too, can promise it is making its proper and best contributions to the world economy.

  Gordon Brown

  America, Promise, World

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• Social Security has nothing to do with the deficit.

  Bernie Sanders

  Social, Security, Social Security

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The debt and the deficit is just getting out of control, and the administration is still pumping through billions upon trillions of new spending. That does not grow the economy.

  Paul Ryan

  Doe, Debt, Administration

  "Bipartisan Blue Ribbon Panel". Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. January 31, 2010.

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• Mr. Obama denounced the $2.3 trillion added to the national debt on Mr. Bush's watch as 'deficits as far as the eye can see.' But Mr. Obama's budget adds $9.3 trillion to the debt over the next 10 years. What happened to Obama the deficit hawk?

  Karl Rove

  Eye, Years, Hawks

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• If you look at the studies coming out of the Congressional Budget Office, the number one thing that's going to blow a hole in the deficit as we go forward 20, 30 years is government spending on healthcare.

  Christina Romer

  Blow, Government, Years

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• Everyone I know has attention deficit, and they say it with great pride. It's a bad time to be right.

  Joni Mitchell

  Pride, Attention, Bad Times

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• What we're discussing privately and publicly, is a budget which is a blueprint for the future which creates jobs, which educates our children, which provides healthcare for all Americans, which takes our deficit down, which gives a tax cut for 95% of the American people.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Jobs, Children, Cutting

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• At the same time, Republicans are pushing a $70 billion tax package that will overwhelmingly benefit the most wealthy Americans and actually increases the deficit by $16 billion.

  Marty Meehan

  Benefits, Pushing, Republican

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• Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.

  Barack Obama

  Education, Teaching, Airplane

  Second Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 25 January 2011, Washington, D.C.

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• Deficits mean future tax increases, pure and simple. Deficit spending should be viewed as a tax on future generations, and politicians who create deficits should be exposed as tax hikers.

  Ron Paul

  Mean, Simple, Generations

  "Deficits Make You Poorer" by Ron Paul, www.lewrockwell.com. March 15, 2005.

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• To reduce deficit spending and our enormous debt, you reign in spending. You cut the budget. You don't take more from the private sector and grow government with it. And that's exactly what Obama has in mind with this expiration of Bush tax cuts proposal of his.

  Sarah Palin

  Cutting, Government, Mind

  "Sarah Palin Talks Immigration, Economy and Political Future". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. August 01, 2010.

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• For the first time in 15 years, Georgia this winter has its electric power guaranteed without deficit. This is a historic achievement.

  Mikhail Saakashvili

  Winter, Years, Electric Power

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• The more competitive value of the dollar turned around the trade deficit.

  Martin Feldstein

  Dollars, Trade, Values

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• Although economists have studied the sensitivity of import and export volumes to changes in the exchange rate, there is still much uncertainty about just how much the dollar must change to bring about any given reduction in our trade deficit.

  Martin Feldstein

  Dollars, Reduction, Given

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• What is the biggest public forum in the United States? We were told it's the Super Bowl. The ad shows kids working at blue-collar jobs, and the final statement is just written text: Who's going to pay for the trillion dollar deficit?

  Joan Blades

  Jobs, Kids, Blue

  "MoveOn as an Instrument of the People". Interview with Terrence McNally, www.alternet.org. June 24, 2004.

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• If there's a severe recession, the automatic stabilizers will come into effect, and we will still try to reduce the structural deficit, but we will not try to keep cutting the budget so that we keep worsening a severe recession.

  Franklin Raines

  Cutting, Trying, Fierce

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• And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it's going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we've made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That's why we did it.

  Barack Obama

  Years, Goal, Progress

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• Unless the trade deficit shrinks, the combination of the trade deficit and the interest and dividend payments to foreigners will grow ever more rapidly.

  Martin Feldstein

  Combination, Payment, Interest

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• The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.

  Sam Ewing

  Government, Differences, Nerves

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• To finance this trade deficit, the U.S. has to borrow from the rest of the world or sell American assets like stocks, businesses, and real estate to the rest of the world.

  Martin Feldstein

  Real, World, Finance

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